Hi All Good news. There is a way around this problem. After much searching I found TechNet article 319047 and this should resolve the issue. I now have all the network accounts for my Outlook resources disabled and all of them fully functional otherwise. It also means I can disable the network accounts of people who left my company whilst granting other access. I have been asked for this a number of times. Basically go to the Exchange Advanced tab for the user in question and highlight the Self object in the mailbox rights entry. Then grant it full mailbox access which should have anyway and the Associated External Account which it will almost certainly not have. Allow time for it to replicate across the domain then disable the network account. Others with suitable permissions should then be able to access it just fine even though the users network account is disabled. Hope that helps. Get back to me if I can help further at all. Bye for now. Paul Lemonidis. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sav Lomanto" <Sav.Lomanto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:37 AM Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Disabling accounts messing up Exchange Settings http://www.MSExchange.org/ All, I too have been having the same problems for the last year or so and it had been on my list of things to investigate\resolve. We have just lived with it and were going to work out a specific methodology of how to disable user accounts, but still allow colleagues to access the mailbox for a specific period whilst preventing the errors you get in Backup Exec. Hadn't thought of Exmerge! Sav