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One of our users was having bizarre problems with her account. We tried to troubleshoot to find out what was causing the real issue but nothing was clear. Before I even tell you what the reason was, let me tell you first what the symptoms were. First user reports that she has a warning when she logs onto her computer.   I confirmed that she was getting a Windows 7 balloon warning “ Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile ”. When you browse Event Viewer , Windows Logs\Application , you should see another error with the error ID 1521 with a description “Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you log off. This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.” Just these 2 symptoms were indicating a Roaming Profile issue, which makes sense because the user is part of an OU, which roaming...

To get access to a specific mailbox with all permissions use the following command in “Exchange Management Shell” Get-Mailbox username | Add-ADPermission –user username –AccessRights GenericAll To get access to a specific Exchange Mailbox database and all of the mailboxes that this database contains, use the following command in “Exchange Management Shell” Get-MailboxDatabase –identity “ mailbox database name ” | Add-Permission –user username –AccessRights GenericAll Done!