{"id":241,"date":"2012-05-07T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/2012\/05\/configuring-the-iis-drop-folder-permissions-for-sharepoint-timer-service\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:47:03","slug":"configuring-the-iis-drop-folder-permissions-for-sharepoint-timer-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2012\/05\/07\/configuring-the-iis-drop-folder-permissions-for-sharepoint-timer-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring the IIS Drop Folder Permissions for SharePoint Timer Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently ran into an issue where the Timer Service in SharePoint was complaining incessantly about Event 6872, SharePoint Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Courier New\">A critical error occurred while processing the incoming e-mail file c:inetpubmailrootdrop4dd4690601cd288b00000005.eml. The error was: Access to the path &#8216;4dd4690601cd288b00000005.eml&#8217; is denied..<\/font><\/p>\n<p>To resolve this, you can simply go into the SMTP service (Control Panel \u2013&gt; Administrative Tools \u2013&gt; IIS 6.0 Manager) and under the domains, choose and view the properties of your primary server name (do not choice any alias\u2019).<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2012\/05\/image12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2012\/05\/image_thumb12.png\" width=\"598\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Always choose you local server \u2013 not an alias.<\/p>\n<p>Next, you will need to make note of the IIS drop folder on you local server.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2012\/05\/image13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2012\/05\/image_thumb13.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The drop folder location revealed!<\/p>\n<p>Open a windows explorer window to that folder above (C:inetpubmailrootDrop) and set the permissions on the folder to allow your farm account to gain FULL read\/write access.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2012\/05\/image14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2012\/05\/image_thumb14.png\" width=\"306\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Open the properties on your Drop folder.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2012\/05\/image15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2012\/05\/image_thumb15.png\" width=\"363\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Give Allow access to <u>everything<\/u> for your SharePoint Timer service (typically the Farm) account.<\/p>\n<p>The reason we\u2019re using the farm account is because that\u2019s normally what your SharePoint Timer Service is running as.&#160; If it\u2019s going to be running\/is running as another account, setup the above permissions for that account instead.<\/p>\n<p>You should find that the next time your timer service kicks off, your eml files are all sucked into SharePoint, and you will no longer see that error message.<\/p>\n<p>More about this can be found at this at the following technet article. <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ff453924.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ff453924.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently ran into an issue where the Timer Service in SharePoint was complaining incessantly about Event 6872, SharePoint Foundation. 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