Then you also have the issue of why you are using domain admin account all
of the time and not use a separate account when elevated privileges are
needed.

As a side note: you will get a very similar problem with a blackberry
enterprise server if you try to set up a user account who has elevated
domain credentials

Chris


On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]>wrote:

> It’s not a problem, per se. It’s by design. ActiveSync won’t work with
> accounts in any of the protected groups.
>
>
>
> In order to support RBAC, Exchange has to have permissions over much of the
> AD. Protected accounts/groups are explicitly restricted from Exchange having
> control over them. Otherwise, any Exchange admin could make themselves a
> domain admin, enterprise admin, backup operator, server operator, etc.etc.
>
>
>
> There is technical documentation on this change, but it isn’t very
> accessible from a “normal admin” perspective (that is, ok you made that
> change – what does it mean to me). I bugged that last week.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Paul Steele [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:17 AM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* ActiveSync and Domain Admins
>
>
>
> I noticed that my personal account did not work on my iPod with ActiveSync,
> but my test account worked ok. I did some checking and came across an
> article that said that ActiveSync does not work if the user is in the Domain
> Admins group. ExRCA fails as well with the error:
>
>
>
> ExRCA is attempting the FolderSync command on the Exchange ActiveSync
> session.
>
>   The test of the FolderSync command failed.
>
>    Additional Details
>
>   Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 response.
>
>
>
> Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>
>
>

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