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18Dec/097

Managing spaces in AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 script

If you are familiar with Microsoft Exchange 2007 you already know about the AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 script that can be found in the "X:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts", however this script has a bug it doesn't look to support public folders which names contains spaces.

It is quite common to enclose parameters that contains spaces with "quotations" but that doesn't work here.

If you simply try to use the following it will fail.

AddReplicatoPFRecursive.ps1 -TopPublicFolder “\PublicFolder with space” -ServerToAdd “servername”

The solution turned out to be to use single quotes inside the double quotes so it should be something like

AddReplicatoPFRecursive.ps1 -TopPublicFolder “'\PublicFolder with space'-ServerToAdd “servername”

That's really weird and not standard but it works !

7Dec/0920

Cannot move mailboxes: INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS error

When moving mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 or Exchaneg 2010 either from Exchange Management Console or Powershell using the move-mailbox or new-moverequest cmdlets the move operation might fail with the following error.

Active Directory operation failed on server.domain.com. This error is not retriable. Additional information:
Insufficient access rights to perform the operation.
Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150A45, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (0:Int32) [New-MoveRequest], ADOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : 6C39B6E8,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.NewMoveRequest

At first sight it looks like the user initiating the move mailbox doesn't have enough rights to perform this operation, however that user can move other mailboxes just fine.

Here is how to solve the issue