Multiple Excahnge Mailboxes

[Eddie]

I am trying to setup a shared mailbox for our payroll department
([email protected]). I have created a user in AD, which is only
because I do not know of any other way to create just a mailbox, and
under the Payroll User Properties -> Exchange Advanced - > Mailbox
Rights I added a group called Payroll Mailbox Users and gave that group
Read and Full Mailbox Rights. I then went into outlook for each user in
the Payroll Mailbox Users group and under the email account settings ->
change -> more settings -> advanced tab I added the payroll mailbox to
the open these additional mailboxes.

My question is:
1. Is there a better way of creating shared mailboxes other than
creating an AD user?
2. How do I allow user to send from the payroll account. There is no
accounts drop-down visible in this scenario. Do I have to manually type
in payroll in the From field every time?
3. How do I have mail sent from payroll account go to the sent items of
the payroll mailbox other than the users mailbox (default).

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

1) That's the right way to do it manually. There are also ADSI scripts out there to automate the process.

2) The user has to type into the From field.

3) Nothing is built into OUtlook do to this automatically.

There are tools at http://www.ivasoft.biz to help with #2-3.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers