Giving Mailbox Permissions

When a person needs full access to someone else's mailbox (e.g. secretary access to manager; multiple people with access to a group mailbox) then we do that as follows:

You need to know the userid of the person you are giving access to and you need to know the account they need to be added to. Make sure that they SHOULD be allowed access by checking with the owner of the target mailbox.

• From Windows Active Directory Users & Computers:
  • Find the target user's mailbox
  • Select Exchange Advanced tab
  • Press the Mailbox Rights button
  • Press the Add button
  • Type the new user's userid and press OK
  • Click on they newly added userid in the upper window
  • Uncheck the box after "Delete mailbox storage"
  • Check the box after "Full mailbox access" and press OK twice
  • Close out of Active Directory Users & Computers

Notify the requestor that the change has been made but it could take up to 2 hours to take effect.

 

Exchange 2007

•   From Exchange Management Console (EMC)

  • Start EMC Console

  • Locate Recipient Configuration and expand it

  • On the Actions pane (to the right), click Find

  • Type the name of the mailbox owner in the Search box, click Find Now

  • Search Should return the mailbox owner in question

  • Right click on the mailbox owner and select Manage Full Access Permission

  • Click on Add, type the name of the user or group that you want to grant full mailbox access permission to

  • Click OK, and then Click Manage

  • Click Finish (review the result to make sure this is completed successfully)

•    You can also accomplish this by using Exchange Management Shell (EMS)

  • Add-MailboxPermission -Identity "Ellen Adams" -User TedBrem -Accessright Fullaccess 

    This example will grant Ted Bremer full access to Ellen Adam's mailbox.