I am trying to run ESP and I keep getting an access denied error. I have tried many different permissions scenarios trying to work this out. Currently I have one account that has local access to the machine, exchange organization admin and exchange server admin. This account does not have any other domain rights other than user. I have another account with all of the same permissions but is also a "god" account including domain admins etc which I could see having an issuewith the inherited deny send/recieve. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I really need to get access to run the tool. thanks, M

Since your post has been up here for a while and no one has answered, I'll jump in and ask a dumb question. ESP? Maybe it is just the jet-lag, but I can't figure out what you mean by ESP?

I just downloaded ESP and am having the same problem, have you found an answer for this by chance?ESP = Exchange Stress and Performance Toolhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=773ae7fd-860f-4755-b04d-1972e38fa4db&displaylang=en

try connecting to localhost and you should find that it works, I think as thi worked for me but I then got stuck on using the owa.esp module so ............... Robin

hi, I am seeing this same issue while trying to run 32-bit version of ESP on a client machine to an E2K7 64-bit server. any ideas?? KC

I'm now also trying this tool. It's sad there is little troubleshooting explain. I met this trouble for a long time. So far,I can't find answer. And Microsoft has no any description for this question. If you have answer, could you please update your result here?

I never did manage to get it working. Sad.