You are the Exchange administrator for your company. Exchange Server 2003 runs on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 member server.
The Exchange server contains two mailbox stores. AlI user accounts are located in the Accounts organizational unit (OU).
An e-mail virus infects all mailboxes on both mailbox stores.
You create a nonadministrative user that needs to be able to use the Exmerge utility.
This user does not have the necessary permissions to open other users’ mailboxes.
You need to assign this user permission to open all users’ mailboxes to extract the virus.
What should you do?
A.
Assign the user Full Control permissions to the Accounts OU.
B.
Assign the user Send As and Receive As permissions to the administrative group.
C.
Add the user to the Exchange Domain Servers group.
D.
Add the user to the Enterprise Admins global group and to the Exchange server’s local Administrators group.
Explanation:
Explanation for B:
Exchange Domain Servers group do not have the required permission receive as to use EXMERGE, for this reason you must use Method Two For Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge to work successfully against an Exchange 5.5 Server, the user must be logged into Windows 2000 with the Microsoft Exchange Service Account or have Service Account Admin privilege at the Organization, Site and Configuration levels of the Microsoft Exchange Directory.
Explanation for B:
According to articles 262054 and Exmerge documentation the only permission that you need is receive as but according to article 322312 you will get following error in Exmerge log
[19:40:58] Copying data from mailbox ‘user1’ (‘USER1’) on Server ‘SERVER3′ to file’C:USER1.PST’.
[19:40:59] Error opening message store (MSEMS). Verify that the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is running and that you have the correct permissions to log on. (0x8004011d)
[19:40:59] Errors encountered. Copy process aborted for mailbox ‘user1’ (‘USER1’). [19:40:59] Number of items copied from the source store for all mailboxes processed: 0
[19:40:59] Total number of folders processed in the source store: 0
[19:40:59] 0 mailboxes successfully processed. 1 mailboxes were not successfully processed. 0 non-fatal errors encountered.
[19:40:59] Process completion time: 0:00:00:01
Because you also need the send permission
Exchange Domain Servers group do not have the required permission receive as to use EXMERGE, for this reason you must use Method Two For Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge to work successfully against an Exchange 5.5 Server, the user must be logged into Windows 2000 with the Microsoft Exchange Service Account or have Service Account Admin privilege at the Organization, Site and Configuration levels of the Microsoft Exchange Directory.