Login to usermailbox using mboxadmin

[tweinberger]

Hi,

to speed up our upcoming migration from local outlook users to scalix 10 we need to import pst-files into scalix accounts without knowing their passwords.

As mentioned in

http://www.scalix.com/community/viewtop ... in+outlook

it should be possible to logon to foreign mailboxes using the "magic mboxadmin" syntax.

I've tried the following config:

Username: mboxadmin:sxmboxadmin:username
Password: mysecret

but i did not suceed using outlook. Connecting to the mailbox via imap with the supplied config is no problem, so the syntax might not be the point of failure.

Is the mboxadmin trick no longer supported with the mapi-connector?

Environment:

Scalix Connect Version 10.0.0.366
Scalix Server Version 10.0.5.3

Thanks,
T. Weinberger

[florian]

the syntax is different....

you will need to use the users normal name as the username.

you will need to use the following string as the password:

SU=mboxadmin;PASS=mbapass

where mboxadmin is the username of the mboxadmin user, and mbapass is his password.

Note that you currently CANNOT create a user profile for outlook this way using the outlook control panel. you will either need to have the profile already (as created by the real user with his password) or you will need to create the profile using "sxpro.exe", which does not try to signon during profile creation.

Cheers,
Florian.

[divig]

Has this changed again? We are using v10 and I can get this to work with an IMAP connection (hence the mboxadmin permission is set right), but not with a scalix profile. I created the profile using sxpro.

[florian]

this hasn't changed.... the above instructions are for Outlook and MAPI - imap is different, using the mboxadmin: notation...

cheers,
Florian.

[divig]

OK, well here is what I did and I get no where:

* Created a profile with sxpro using this install.ini:

[Install Flags]
InstallMailServerName=xxx.xxx.com
InstallLogfileUpLoadLocation=c:\\temp\\log.txt
InstallDefaultProfileName=MBOXAdmin
InstallWithServerStore=1
InstallAllowSavedPassword=1
InstallSetDefaultProfile=1
InstallLogFileLocation=c:\\temp\\temp.txt
InstallMigrateExProfile=0

* Open Outlook
* The very 1st time it allows me to enter a username, so I enter the username of the user I am trying to log on as
* I am an mboxadmin so for password I type:
SU=mylogin;PASS=mypass
* I then get a small error with "ScalixSP" in the title bar and "Invalid MailboxAdmin credentials supplied - signon refused."
* On subsequent attempts I can not change the username

Like I said, I know my username and password are correct and that I have mboxadmin privelages. I've had no problem configuring this with IMAP i.e. username - mboxadmin:myusername:username and password:mypassword

I assume I must be using the correct format, otherwise I would just get an incorrect password error???

[florian]

using the profile you created, can you login using the users normal username and password?

is your mboxadmin-user a premium user?

florian.

[divig]

I tried to login using the user's normal username and password and I got an error "unable to open session". However I then re-opened Outlook and it connected straight into that user (I had the password saved). Still can't get the mboxadmin to work though.

Yes the mboxadmin user is a premium user

[florian]

ok, can you still create a profile manually (using the control panel), do it non-smart-cache (disable the checkmark), enter username and password, do not safe the password and safe the profile.

then, start outlook, try if you can login without that error message; again, do not safe the password.

then, start outlook afresh, this time entering the mboxadmin credentials in the password field.

this should work. if it doesn't, we have a problem. if it does, there seems to be something wrong with your created profile.

i assume this is server 11.0.0.431 and mapi 11.0.0.653. please confirm.

cheers,
Florian.

[divig]

no as I mentioned earlier I'm still on v10. What's the procedure here?

Thanks for the quick responses.

[florian]

Procedure should be the same - please try as above. Only thing is that with Scalix 10 I know it works because i've tried it myself.

-- F.

[divig]

Still not working. You asked about being a premium user, so I tried changing my account back to standard, but this didn't help. We are planning on upgrading to v11 in a few weeks, so I might just try again then.

[florian]

so this is a tested install.ini file from our field team (courtesy of Darrell, many thanks...):

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[Install Flags]
InstallMailServerName=XXXXXXXXXX
InstallLogfileUpLoadLocation=c:\\temp\\sxpro\\log.txt
InstallDefaultProfileName=XXXXX
InstallWithServerStore=1
InstallAllowSavedPassword=1
InstallSetDefaultProfile=0
InstallLogFileLocation=c:\\temp\\sxpro\\temp.txt
InstallMigrateExProfile=0
InstallEnableSmartCache=1
InstallUsername=XXXXXX
InstallPassword=SU=sxadmin;PASS=XXXXXX


[mrezzonico]

Hi all, I have a similar problem.

In my system the user "sxadmin" is a mailboxadmin.
omshowu -n sxadmin
Mailbox Admin Capabilities : YES

I have manually added a new Outlook profile.
But when I try to log in (for example) as:
User name: mrezzonico
Password: SU=sxadmin;PASS=xxxx
I receive the error: The username or password is incorrect.

Any help is appreciated.

Miche