THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

Someone really got their OWA permissions horked up pretty good, and before we just went and uninstalled and reinstalled, I remembered our dear friend Ray Fong had posted a “fasten your seatbelts we're editing the metabase“ post a while back.

THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART AND I'M ONLY POSTING THIS SO I CAN FIND IT FOR THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE REALLY AND TRULY SCREWS UP OWA [and yes I know I'm yelling]

But as always...thank you Ray Fong!

1. Go to IIS, right-click servername (local computer), Properties.

Backup/Restore Configuration to save a copy of IIS settings

2. Right-click servername (local computer), Properties. Check Enable Direct

Metabase Edit.

3  Expand servername (local computer), Web Sites, Default Web Site.

4. Delete Exadmin, Exchange, ExchWeb, Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync, OMA (Do

Not delete exchange-oma)

5. Open MetaBase.xml with Notepad.

6. Locate the following object where ID = 61472

  Location

="/LM/DS2MB/HighWaterMarks/{57F70E62-7E37-472B-A9F0-3BE08883AC5A}">

                Name="UnknownName_61472"

        ID="61472"   (<---- This one)

        Value="53322"

        Type="STRING"

        UserType="IIS_MD_UT_SERVER"

        Attributes="NO_ATTRIBUTES"

   />

7. Change the Value to "0". Your original number will not be "53322".

8. Save the file.

9. From a command prompt, type "iisreset"

10. Restart Exchange System Attendant

11. Run CEICW (ToDoList -> Connect to the Internet). Make sure you select

Enable Firewall.

Another one for the category of Ray-isms... dedicated to once a SBSer always a SBSer Ray Fong!