Category: quest

The OWA saga continues…

techadmin
After solving the msExchVersion mystery, it has become apparent that even more of our Exchange 2007 users were unable to access OWA.
After logging onto the site, a very similar error is displayed: Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException Exception message: There was a problem accessing Active Directory. My first step was obviously to verify the msExchVersion.
After ensuring that this was correct, and that the users were still unable to use OWA, I had to do more digging. Deeper delving into this issue, yielded the following KB from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949527
To use OWA the Exchange Servers group must have write permissions to the msExchUserCulture attribute. Easy to resolve, just allow inheritable permissions from the parent to filter to the faulty object / objects, as per the KB article.
Easy enough on one account, but if you had to change this setting manually on multiple accounts, you could use Set-QADObjectSecurity –UnlockInheritance to accomplish the task. For more information see Dimitri’s blog

Automatically clean up orphaned user directories

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We’ve had a huge problem where users were removed from Active Directory, but somehow the administrators neglected to remove the home folder for the user from the file servers. This left someone with the nasty task of cleaning up the mess.
This script will work through a directory of home folders and lookup the user in AD. This is assuming that the home folder and the user id are the same. If the user is not found, or the account is disabled, the folder will be renamed with a leading “orphan-” followed by the original name. The script requires a parameter, which is the path where the folders are located. e.g. “findorphans.ps1 c:users” The script requires that the Quest Powershell Commandlets are installed, and they can be downloaded free, here. 

param($target)
$folders=Get-ChildItem -Path $target | Where-Object {$_.Name -notlike "orphan*" -and ($_.PSISContainer)} | Select-Object name
foreach ($folder in $folders){
Write-Host ""
$userid=""
"PROCESSING FOLDER: {0} "   -f $folder.name
write-host "Searching for a possible owner..."
$user=Get-QADUser $folder.name
$useracc=$user.AccountIsDisabled
$userid=$user.samaccountname
$newid="orphan-" + $folder.name
$fullpath=$target + "" + $folder.name
$fullpath
"Account Disabled: {0} "   -f $user.AccountIsDisabled

if ($userid.length -lt "0" -or $user.AccountIsDisabled -eq "True") {
Write-Host "No owner found or account disabled, orphan folder renamed to" $newid -ForegroundColor Red
rename-Item -Path $fullpath -NewName $newid
}
else {
Write-Host "Owner found" $user -ForegroundColor Green
}
}