Hello everyone,
I'm an SBS/Exchange 2003 administrator, and I just setup a new Exchange
account in Entourage 2004... specifically, the exchange administrator
account. Setup went very smoothly after importing the certificate into
the keychain, and manually configuring the account settings... however,
imagine my suprise when I see that the administrator account now has
about 700 contacts and birthday reminders in the calendar!
I don't use the Exchange admin account for anything but testing
purposes, and know that I never entered any contacts or calendar events
(except for a few backup reminders that the SBS backup wiz threw in).
I also know for certain that these items were not in the calendar or
contacts before setting up the Entourage account because I logged in
with Outlook 2003 and verified that they were all created the same time
I created the Entourage 2004 account.
After some digging around, I found that the items belonged to another
exchange user. I also found that these items (the ones now in the
admin account) are not connected to this user in any way... meaning
that if I delete an item from the admin contacts or calendar (using
either Outlook or Entourage), they are not deleted in this user's
calendar or contacts.
I haven't changed any permissions related to the administrator account,
so that account cannot get into any other exchange mailboxes... in fact
I have a seperate account setup for just that purpose (this was an
NT4/Exchange 5.5 setup that got migrated to SBS 2003 and new hardware).
So... anyone else seen this happen? Anyone from Microsoft care to
check into this... seems like a pretty serious issue...?
Thanks!
-Heath