How do I give another person permission to an archive?

[Guest]

A person just left. I was asked to archive everything from her exchange
(2003) server file to her archive. After which, I copied her archive .pst
file to a shared drive.

Now I want to give someone else permission to open it. How do I do that? Is
this handled at the file-level security? Being the system administrator, I
can open the file, but right clicking on properties shows the "Share" line
greyed out and properties doesn't have anything permission related.

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Hi Mark,

an "archive.pst" (or any other PST file) can not be shared without 3rd party
utilities.

PST (live) sharing solution:
http://www.publicshareware.com/public-share-outlook-description.html

Other Outlook "sharing" solutions:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

Article about "sharing your Outlook information (by Eric Legault)"
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011477571033.aspx

Office Marketplace Outlook messaging tools:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/CE010719621033.aspx

Maybe it helps.

 

[Guest]

That's not exactly what I'm trying to do. I don't want multiple people to
open a .PST file (The essence of what sharing is all about). I just want to
give permission to person to be able to open the file. Obviously since I'm
not the person that left, yet I can open this file, but another can't open
the file, that person is having a permission problem. Not a sharing problem.

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Hi Mark,

sorry that I missunderstood your question.

"..but another can't open the file, that person is having a permission
problem"

And you can not give permission to this user for this folder where the PST
file is stored?

Another idea would be to move this PST file into a folder where this user
has permission, right?
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/taxonomy/term/30?page=1

search for "Changing the default archive location in Microsoft Outlook" on
this site.