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June 29, 2000 at 05:01 AM
rfraysier

Exchange Administrator Backdoor

by rfraysier . Updated 25 years, 11 months ago

Awhile back we had to move all our users mailboxes from one domain to
another. We used a site connector to connect the two domains, set up a two
way trust and added the administrator from each domain to the organization,
site and server. The problem is, although we worked with microsoft on
setting this up, the domain admin account that we’re now using doesn’t have
permissions admin enabled for the account. The other domain no longer
exists and we have an unknown account with permissions admin rights, can’t
change the rights for our current domain admin, because we don’t have the
rights. We would like to add OWA to our site, on a seperate server, but
because it requires the account with permission admin rights (and of course
we don’t have one), we aren’t able to. Is there a back door that we can use
to change permissions for our account or rename the ‘unknown account’ to a
legitimate domain account? Or can someone suggest another course of action?

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