I've inherited a windows 2003 AD which is playing up. When you create a Dist
Group, either Global or Universal, it changes automatically to a security
group all by itself. How is this happening?
Not sure if it's related but the the reason I found this was because Outlook
is not recognising Delegate permissions on these groups. ie if you set read
permission to a user, it works fine. If you set permissions to a group that
a user is in, it doesn't work. Error is 'Calendar can't be found'.

Any help appreciated.
Also which are the best NGs for AD and Exchange related stuff?

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Uncle Bully <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> I've inherited a windows 2003 AD which is playing up. When you create
> a Dist Group, either Global or Universal, it changes automatically to
> a security group all by itself. How is this happening?

Make sure AD is in native mode (unless you still have NT domain controllers
lurking around)

> Not sure if it's related but the the reason I found this was because
> Outlook is not recognising Delegate permissions on these groups. ie
> if you set read permission to a user, it works fine. If you set
> permissions to a group that a user is in, it doesn't work. Error is
> 'Calendar can't be found'.

Sounds like you're still in mixed mode.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Also which are the best NGs for AD

microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory

> and Exchange related stuff?

microsoft.public.exchange.admin

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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>
> In news:4468515f$0$24031$(E-Mail Removed),
> Uncle Bully <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
>> I've inherited a windows 2003 AD which is playing up. When you create
>> a Dist Group, either Global or Universal, it changes automatically to
>> a security group all by itself. How is this happening?
>
> Make sure AD is in native mode (unless you still have NT domain
> controllers lurking around)
>
>> Not sure if it's related but the the reason I found this was because
>> Outlook is not recognising Delegate permissions on these groups. ie
>> if you set read permission to a user, it works fine. If you set
>> permissions to a group that a user is in, it doesn't work. Error is
>> 'Calendar can't be found'.
>
> Sounds like you're still in mixed mode.

Thanks,

It appears that the domain has been through a few upgrades (I see Exch 5.5
and NT remnants in there), and is currently a 2003 AD (w Exch2003) but has
2000 DCs and is running at 2000 functional level.

My plan is to upgrade everything to native 2003 or hopefully start again
fresh with a sparkley new 2003 environment.


>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>> Also which are the best NGs for AD
>
> microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory
>
>> and Exchange related stuff?
>
> microsoft.public.exchange.admin
>
>