Need help Deleted permissions on public Folder

[Guntha]

I did a search on how to keep people from adding top level public folders and changed permissions as suggested by a Tek Tips member. Unfortunatley I just left my user account on as owner and now cannot manage the public Folders from the system manager on my E2K server. I cant even see what is in the public Folders anymore.

I could really use some help in putting the permissions back as they were.

Please help

Guntha

 

[Guntha]

I am now getting unable to expand the folder. "The set of Folders coulsd not be opened. The attempt to log on to the microsoft exchange server has failed" when I try to expand the public folders tree. This is looking bad, anyone have a suggestion?

Update your resume isnt the one I want to hear

G

 

[Guntha]

TTT

 

[xmsre]

How exactly did you change the permissions?

 

[Guntha]

I changed them at the top level of the Public folder tree via System manager, following advice from an old thread on this forum I unchecked "allow inheritable permissions and without thinking I only had myself with rights. I logged in as myself on the Exchange server and rechecked the allow inheritable permissions. I still cant mount the Public Folders Store, though.

I'm going to restart the Information Store service around lunch time and see if that helps any.

At least I can get in and change permissions now so things are looking better.

Thanks
G

 

[xmsre]

The propagation thing is what got you. I put the steps in faq858-4125

Permissions on public folders are actually stored in the public store. If the data in your public folders doesn't change ofter, the quickest route to recovery is a restore of the public folders from your last online backup.

A reinstall may also do it for you:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320007

 

[Guntha]

I'm trying to run the eseutil /cc to restore the Public folders but am geting an error regarding the log files not being contiguous. Any ideas?

 

[xmsre]

There's not a lot to a restore from the last online. About the worst would be you'd have to check the "This database can be overwritten by a restore" box. Why are you messing with the logs?

 

[Guntha]

Got it fixed!!
I wasnt deliberatly messing with them. I restored the public folders from a backup from a week ago. When I ran the eseutil /cc it came up saying the logs werent contiguous. I did some checking around on MS site and found that using eseutil/cc <path to .env fil> /t [note the /t switch] would reload the public folders without looking at the old log files. This article explains it better than I can

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298901&Product=exch2k

I appreciate all your help, boy am I glad that is taken care of.

G

 

[xmsre]

Yeah, basically it would force a soft recovery. That's actually a good idea, if you replay the transactions after the restore, you replay the permissions change. It's strange that you would have a gap though. Did you have to go further back than the last online to find a good backup to restore? Under normal circumstances, that's about all I can think of that would cause a gap in the logs.

 

[Guntha]

My backups are on a weekly rotation and DLTS are stored offsite. I used a week old backup for conveniece and because my public folders do not change much.

Thanks again for the help and direction, I really appreciate it.

G