Powershell – getting an Access Denied on importing a PST file in Exchange 2010 SP1

You need to give the Exchange Trusted Subsystem read/write access to the folder that contains the PST. Try again after adding this to your ACL on the pstfiles folder.

I came back to this after a brief hiatus to look again with fresh eyes (both mine and a co-worker) and decided to go back to the basics again:

On the client I executed (in administrator shell):

enable-wsmancredssp -role client -delegatecomputer devremvm03 -force

On the server I executed (in administrator shell):

enable-wsmancredssp -role server -force

Both returned normal output indicating CredSSP was now "true".

I then used the following exerciser code to walk through increasing levels of complexity:

$block = {
  Write-Host ("hello, world: {0}, {1}" -f $env:USERNAME, (hostname))
}
$username = "test_user"
$password = "..."   
$adjPwd = $password | ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
$testCred = (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username,$adjPwd))    

switch ($choice)
{
  "basic"       { Invoke-Command $block }
  "remote"      { Invoke-Command $block -computername $serverName }
  "credentialA" { Invoke-Command $block -computername $serverName -credential $testCred  }
  "credentialB" { Invoke-Command $block -computername $serverName -credential $testCred  -Authentication Credssp}
  "session"     { 
      $testSession = New-PSSession -computername $serverName -credential $testCred -Authentication Credssp
      if ($testSession) { Invoke-Command $block -Session $testSession; Remove-PSSession $testSession }
      }
}

All of that is in my run.ps1 script so the transcript went as follows (and this ran in a non-administrator shell):

PS C:\> .\run.ps1 basic
hello, world: msorens, MyLocalMachine
PS C:\> .\run.ps1 remote MyRemoteServer
hello, world: msorens, MyRemoteServer
PS C:\> .\run.ps1 credentialA MyRemoteServer
hello, world: test_user, MyRemoteServer
PS C:\> .\run.ps1 credentialB MyRemoteServer
hello, world: test_user, MyRemoteServer
PS C:\> .\run.ps1 session MyRemoteServer
hello, world: test_user, MyRemoteServer

Previously, only basic, remote, and credentialA worked. Now all 5 work. Whew!