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Just what is your address?

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Mar 24, 2004
We're all pretty familiar with the common SMTP address - spam@make.it.go.away.com. And a lot of folks are happy with just one or two of these. But if you've migrated any users lately, setup cross-...
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Mar 30, 2004
The much loved Odd Couple of Master Account Sid and Associated External Account.



To really understand MAS, you need to talk to Larry

http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman, ask him to explain: MAS, Associated External Accounts, SID, DACL, SACL, and ACL. :)See also Larry's blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/03/17/91454.aspx for a start on this subject.



I'd have to look at your eventlog more to really tell what happened, but check out

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326990 ,and see if that helps to fix it.



In a nutshell, a security attribute we expected to be on an object is missing. Bad Things can happen as a result. Go and find the object, and set something as the associated external account.