Opening Other Users Mailbox

[Travis]

Hey All, Thanks is advance for any help.
We recently had a manager leave the company, and I'm trying to give
another manager full access to the old managers mailbox (with the old
managers consent of course).
We're using Exchange 5.5 with Outlook 2003.
I've set up the new manager with custom permissions on the server
(giving mailbox ownership as well as all admin rights) and have started
shareing the folders in the old mailbox. Testing on my own mailbox, I
can successfully open the shared folders, however the user had set up
DOZENS of subfolders.
Is there any way to give another user full acces to an existing
mailbox without sharing each and every subfolder??

The only other alternative I can think of is settiing the new manager
up with a profile for the old manager, but I know this isn't what the
new manager is looking for as he would have to close and re-open
outlook every time he wanted to check the old managers mail.

Thanks again for the help.

Travis

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Yes, you would grant the rights in Exchange Administrator program. If you
bring up the properties in the mailbox in question, do you see a permissions
tab? If not, take a peek under tools > options to see if you can turn the
permissions tab on for all objects.

 

[Travis]

Thanks for the reply "neo"
Actually, we already had the "permissions for all options" checked but
I've later been told they just need access to the pst's "just in
case"...the way my boss explained the request made it seem like they
had to have full access to all folders and mail from their own mailbox.

All I did was force everything into a pst and set up an auto-forward
rule and the new manager is as happy as a clam.

Thanks.