{"id":1807,"date":"2016-01-14T22:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T22:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2016-01-14T22:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T22:30:04","slug":"microsoft-exchange-action-could-not-be-performed-on-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Exchange Action Could Not be Performed on User"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When deleting a mailbox from Microsoft Exchange Server, the following error is sometimes displayed, especially if the user has been an Exchange Administrator:<\/p>\n<pre>Microsoft Exchange Error - Action Remove could not be performed on object 'User'\r\nError: Active Directory operation Failed on User.  This error is not retriable. \r\nAdditional inFormation: Access is denied.  Active directory response: 00000005: \r\nSecErr: , problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data O\r\nThe user has insuFFicient access rights.<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tritoneco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Microsoft-Exchange-Could-Not-Perform-Action-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1420\" src=\"http:\/\/tritoneco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Microsoft-Exchange-Could-Not-Perform-Action-2.png\" alt=\"Microsoft-Exchange-Could-Not-Perform-Action-2\" width=\"478\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fix:<\/p>\n<p>Open Active Directory Users and Computers<\/p>\n<p>Open the user to be deleted<\/p>\n<p>In the Security tab, give \u2018Exchange Servers\u2019 full control<\/p>\n<p>Then, delete the mailbox with the Exchange Management Console or Shell<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tritoneco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Microsoft-Exchange-Could-Not-Perform-Action-Fix-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1421\" src=\"http:\/\/tritoneco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Microsoft-Exchange-Could-Not-Perform-Action-Fix-2.png\" alt=\"Microsoft-Exchange-Could-Not-Perform-Action-Fix-2\" width=\"426\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When deleting a mailbox from Microsoft Exchange Server, the following error is sometimes displayed, especially if the user has been an Exchange Administrator: Microsoft Exchange Error &#8211; Action Remove could not be performed on object &#8216;User&#8217; Error: Active Directory operation Failed on User. This error is not retriable. Additional inFormation: Access is denied. Active directory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-exchange","category-exchange-2007","category-exchange-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}