=========Mailbox Sharing===========   

One mailbox will be shared by multiple users in the domain. The requirement 
is that the users can fully access this shared mailbox but nobody can delete 
the contacts in Contact folder of the mailbox except the domain 
administrator. Does anyone have a way to do that? Thanks.

Ian

date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:03:01 -0800   author:   Ian

Re: =========Mailbox Sharing===========   

It should be quite easy - give the domain users group permissions to
the mailbox, and then manually edit the contacts folder right. Modify
the permissions here to give domain users read-only access, and domain
admins full control.

date: 26 Jan 2006 00:21:11 -0800   author:   Jaap de Koning

Re: =========Mailbox Sharing===========   

I gave the full mailbox access to users in Mailbox Rights on Exchange server, 
and disabled Delete permission on Contacts folder in Outlook. In this way, 
users can access all mailbox but they can still delete the contacts. What's 
wrong?

"Jaap de Koning" wrote:

> It should be quite easy - give the domain users group permissions to
> the mailbox, and then manually edit the contacts folder right. Modify
> the permissions here to give domain users read-only access, and domain
> admins full control.
> 
>

date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:37:08 -0800   author:   Ian

Re: =========Mailbox Sharing===========   

No, revert back to where you were.

Then logon as the "user", share the mailbox to Admins (Owner) and Users 
(Publishing Author I think) and same for Inbox and Contacts. The Users 
should get the permission that allows them to read items but not delete. 
Can't recall exactly which permission that is!

"Ian"  wrote in message 
news:287F5E71-D3A4-4745-8214-8E97F64A5A8D@microsoft.com...
>I gave the full mailbox access to users in Mailbox Rights on Exchange 
>server,
> and disabled Delete permission on Contacts folder in Outlook. In this way,
> users can access all mailbox but they can still delete the contacts. 
> What's
> wrong?
>
> "Jaap de Koning" wrote:
>
>> It should be quite easy - give the domain users group permissions to
>> the mailbox, and then manually edit the contacts folder right. Modify
>> the permissions here to give domain users read-only access, and domain
>> admins full control.
>>
>>

date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:57:36 -0000   author:   Nick Gillott [MVP]

Re: =========Mailbox Sharing===========   

Nick,

At the very begginning. I did not do anything on Exchange server. I gave 
read/write permission to users and no Delete Item on Contacts folder but I 
found that I have to do this on every single folder and subfolder as well as 
every new folder.

Ian
"Nick Gillott [MVP]" wrote:

> No, revert back to where you were.
> 
> Then logon as the "user", share the mailbox to Admins (Owner) and Users 
> (Publishing Author I think) and same for Inbox and Contacts. The Users 
> should get the permission that allows them to read items but not delete. 
> Can't recall exactly which permission that is!
> 
> "Ian"  wrote in message 
> news:287F5E71-D3A4-4745-8214-8E97F64A5A8D@microsoft.com...
> >I gave the full mailbox access to users in Mailbox Rights on Exchange 
> >server,
> > and disabled Delete permission on Contacts folder in Outlook. In this way,
> > users can access all mailbox but they can still delete the contacts. 
> > What's
> > wrong?
> >
> > "Jaap de Koning" wrote:
> >
> >> It should be quite easy - give the domain users group permissions to
> >> the mailbox, and then manually edit the contacts folder right. Modify
> >> the permissions here to give domain users read-only access, and domain
> >> admins full control.
> >>
> >> 
> 
> 
>

date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:32:02 -0800   author:   Ian

Re: =========Mailbox Sharing===========   

Nick, Ian,

If you distribute rights in the client, you have to set them for each
folder seperatly. If you set them from active directory (or the
exchange manager in version 5.5) it sets them for the entire mailbox.
After rights have been set on a folder, all new subfolders should
inherit those rights.

Also, I would recommend that you give the domain users only read
rights.

As a last comment, is the contacts all that is used in the mailbox? If
so, you might want to consider using public folders.

regards,
Jaap de Koning

date: 27 Jan 2006 02:07:22 -0800   author:   Jaap de Koning

Re: =========Mailbox Sharing===========   

If you set the defaults in AD and the Manager forgets, then all new folders 
they create will be visible to the subordinate. This could be a problem 
which is why I advocate leaving the default as no access.

"Jaap de Koning"  wrote in message 
news:1138356442.085243.213570@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Nick, Ian,
>
> If you distribute rights in the client, you have to set them for each
> folder seperatly. If you set them from active directory (or the
> exchange manager in version 5.5) it sets them for the entire mailbox.
> After rights have been set on a folder, all new subfolders should
> inherit those rights.
>
> Also, I would recommend that you give the domain users only read
> rights.
>
> As a last comment, is the contacts all that is used in the mailbox? If
> so, you might want to consider using public folders.
>
> regards,
> Jaap de Koning
>

date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:14:33 -0000   author:   Nick Gillott [MVP]