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The Act As Account May Not Have Permissions to Access this Folder

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Topic Last Modified: 2012-05-23

The Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer sends a GetFolder XML/HTTP request to the Exchange Web Services service using the Exchange Web Services API to get folder information for a mailbox or public folder. When an access denied error status message is present in the response, the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer generates the following error.

"The Act As Account may not have permissions to access this folder."

The Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer uses the GetFolder operation of Exchange Web Services to get folder information for a mailbox or public folder to test whether the account specified has permissions to read folder information including the folder’s content items count.

The "Act As Account" is the account used by Exchange to authorize the execution of Exchange Web Services commands. In most cases, this is the account issuing the Exchange Web Services requests. However, if ExchangeImpersonation (also known as Server-to-Server Authorization) is being used then the account being impersonated is the "Act As Account".

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To resolve this issue, the Act As account must have permission to read folder information for the folder specified. To make sure the Act As account has the appropriate permissions, do the following:

  1. Grant the Act As account full mailbox permissions to the folder’s mailbox via the Add-MailboxPermission command. Or, see How to Allow Mailbox Access.

  2. Grant the Act As account permissions to read items in the public folder via the Add-PublicFolderClientPermission command. Also, for Exchange Server 2007 see Configuring Public Folder Permissions.

  3. Grant the Act As account permissions to read items in the specific mailbox or public folder in Outlook by editing the Outlook folder permissions.

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