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How do I supply alternate credentials to use the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer command line version?

I am trying to get the Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Management Pack running on MOM 2005 in a test environment. I've imported it onto my MOM server and the agent sees the rules just fine. I've installed ExBPA onto the Exchange server using the MOM operators console and that worked OK. But I expected to find some alerts when I came into the office this morning since I know that there are things on the test server that trigger ExBPA alerts. I checked the Event log on the Exchange server this morning and found events 100 and 101 saying that the tool was starting and finishing. I also found event 1142 saying that the configuration data was changed. If, however, I look at the ExBPA log files, I see a number of "Access is denied" messages.

When I run the GUI version of the ExBPA tool, I need to supply an alternate set of credentials to access AD and the Exchange server. How do I supply these credentials to the ExBPA Management Pack so that it can be used with the ExBPA command line version?

Contributed By: Kenxl Zou [MSFT]
My understanding on this issue is: You have a problem when using ExBPA MP in MOM2005. Based on your descriptions, this might be a permission related issue. Please follow the steps below:

1. Change the Agent Action account to the local system account.

2. Please verify if the MOM Service had been configured to run as local system account on the Exchange server or not.
If the answer is No, please change the account to the local system account. You can input "NT AUTHORITY\System" in "User Name" box and left password blank. Then the task will run under Local System account.

3. Make sure the Exchange server can connect to the DC correctly.

If the issue persists, please perform a following test on the computer and let me know how things go.
Create a new schedule task and set the task to run the following command:
<drive>:\Program Files\ExBPA\ExBPACmd -p Events:Enable -dat ExBPA.Server.data.xml -r "3,Server="<this servername>""

Make sure the task had been set to run under the local system account.

Then please check if this schedule task can run correctly on the computer or not. (If it can run correctly, a XML data file will be written to the ExBPA programs folder)

You can also change the Agent Action account to the account which you used in GUI version (or the domain admin acount) temporarily to check the result.