I have been doing some testing with the PFADMIN for removing the DNs and also adding an account with all access. I wrote a macro that would delete the cells that started with /O and the permissions cell to the right of it and then add and account with all permissions at the end of every line of the PDADMDAT.TXT file. To my surprise...PFADMIN appends the permissions...I was thinking I have seen several times that PFADMIN overwrites all permissions and that is why you have to be so careful with it. I am so confused now, I have even been working with a MS consultant that told me the same thing. Now he send me this article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188629. Telling me permissions are not removed unless you use the remove option. Now another problem, I have an admin in London doing some testing because I do not have access to a test environment today but he is having issues with using the REMOVE option to get rid of the DNs...says it is hanging. So I am aback to square one on how to remove the orphaned ACLs, but I guess if this is all true it should be rather simple to append one account to all folders. Haven't any of you guys ever had to deal with this?
-----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:39 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: PFINFO Question I deliberately chose not to comment on that suggestion. Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hatley, Ken Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:03 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: PFINFO Question I know I can use PFINFO and PFADMIN, I am asking if you agree with the Karen's solution and if not is there any automated ways to get rid of the invalid DNs? -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:00 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: PFINFO Question You can use PFINFO and PFADMIN to do this, yes. Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP "Protecting the world from PSTs and bricked backups." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hatley, Ken Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:05 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: PFINFO Question Does anyone else agree or disagree? -----Original Message----- From: Dryden, Karen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:09 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: PFINFO Question Just use ds/is consistency adj in 5.5 and choose to fix all inconsistencies. I would select all but the reset the home server... option, but others may not agree with that. That way you'll get unknown users and unknown accounts removed from the mailbox permissions as well. -----Original Message----- From: Hatley, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:43 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: PFINFO Question Has anyone ever used PFINFO and PFADMT.txt to remove invalid DNs from Public Folders? I would like to write a macro to remove the DNs from the PFAdmin file and was wondering if anyone has ever done this. I have to clean up our Exchange 5.5 environment in preparation for Exchange 2000 but we have over 20000 Public Folders. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
