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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Exchange 2007: One or more users cannot be added to the folder access list. Non-local users cannot be given rights on this server

Summary: When attempting to add a user to a public folder permssion you receive the following error.

One or more users cannot be added to the folder access list. Non-local users cannot be given rights on this server

In addition when you look in the GAL the user has a red circle.

Cause: It appears to be because the user is a mailbox of type "Shared"

Solution: Convert the mailbox type to regular.

Set-mailbox user1 -type regular

If the mailbox is already set as type regular then you need to verify that the following properties are set correctly in adsiedit.

RecipientDisplayType = 1073741824
RecipientTypeDetails = 1


Exchange 2007 and Recipient Type Details
http://blogs.technet.com/b/benw/archive/2007/04/05/exchange-2007-and-recipient-type-details.aspx



James Chong (MVP)
MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+
Security+, Project+, ITIL
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xml:lang="en" lang="en"> MS Exchange Tips: June 2009