XADM: The "Write Personal Information" Permission Is Not Assigned When You Associate an Exchange 2000 Mailbox with a Windows NT 4.0 User Account (813335)

SYMPTOMS

When you associate an Exchange 2000 mailbox with a Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 user account, or when you use the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Migration Wizard to migrate user information and mailboxes to Exchange 2000 Server, the Write Personal Information permission may not be assigned to the users. Therefore, users may not be able to perform certain tasks, such as assigning delegates in Microsoft Outlook.

CAUSE

In certain situations, when you associate an Exchange 2000 mailbox with a Windows NT 4.0 account, or when you use the Exchange 2000 Server Migration Wizard to migrate users to Exchange 2000, the permissions that are assigned to users may not be the same as the default permissions that are automatically assigned when you create a new mailbox-enabled user in Active Directory Users and Computers. For example, the Write Personal Information permission is not assigned to users in this scenario.

WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, manually assign the Write Personal Information permission to the user. To do so:

Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
Expand Users, right-click the user whose permissions you want to modify, and then click Properties.
Click the Security tab.
In the Name box, click the user whose permissions you want to modify, click to select the Write Personal Information check box under Allow, and then click OK.
Quit Active Directory Users and Computers.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to associate an Exchange 2000 mailbox with a Windows NT 4.0 account, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

278888 XADM: How to Associate an Exchange 2000 Mailbox with a Windows NT 4.0 Account