Thanks for the suggestion. I created an account and posted my question on the Cisco forum.
- Sean On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Maglinger, Paul <pmaglin...@scvl.com>wrote: > The Cisco forum for Unity is monitored by one of the original developers, > and he usually responds fairly quickly. He could probably give you the > answers you need. > > > > *From:* Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] > *Sent:* Friday, November 20, 2009 1:00 PM > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Cisco Unity Upgrade - Version 4 to Version 7 > > > > Have not experienced this particular problem, but it does sound like the > Unity service account has some kind of permission issue on those mailboxes. > What I have found in looking at somewhat similar issues is that it can be > extremely difficult to adequately compare permissions between a working > mailbox and a non-working one and the easiest solution is what they > suggest--delete and re-create. I can understand why you wouldn't want to do > that if there are a lot, though. > > > > The only thing that I have ever run across that was like that and was > resolvable had to do with the user account in question having been a member > of a "special" group in the past. For example, if you have ever been in > "Domain Admins" or "Print Operators" on the DC (to name a couple), you get > flagged in AD and your permissions get reset at a regular interval. If > these are generic department accounts, though, I would not expect that to be > your problem. If you would like more specific info on that, let me know and > I will dig out my notes. > > > > Good luck! > > Bill Mayo > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, November 20, 2009 1:48 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Cisco Unity Upgrade - Version 4 to Version 7 > > Good morning (or afternoon) everyone, > > > > Our Network Services team recently upgraded Cisco Unity from version 4 to > version 7. For all intensive purposes, the upgrade went fairly well. There > is one nagging issue that we have a workaround for, but I'm hoping some of > you may have experienced a similar situation and were able to come up with > a better solution. > > > > Environment: > > Windows 2003 AD > > Exchange 2003 SP2 - 2 mailbox servers, one front-end server > > Cisco Unuity 7 > > > > Individual Unity subscribers are able to access their own voicemail, via > Outlook Viewmail 7.02 and via the phones themselves without issue. However, > several branch offices use a departmental unity account which is tied into a > departmental mailbox. Users in these office can play the voicemail via > Outlook just fine, but when they dial the extension to check the message for > that departmental account, they hear the response "your message cannot be > accessed at this time". > > > > Our Network Services team has run the Unity permissions wizard several > times to verify that everything is setup correctly. The various service > accounts did not change from the previous version. Cisco support finally > suggested that the offending mailboxes be deleted and a new mailbox be > created. This seems to resolve the issue. However, we'd rather not have to > follow through with this solution considering the number of mailboxes that > are affected. > > > > I've tried deleting the mailbox and simply re-associating with the original > account. I've also tried moving the mailbox between storage groups and > between mailbox servers. Using ADSIEdit, I've tracked down the permissions > applied to the Information Stores and it all appears to be setup correctly. > > > > Has anyone experienced anything similar? More importantly, were you able to > identify an easier solution? > > > > - Sean >