How to give all Exchange mailbox access to another user:

With Microsoft Exchange server 2003, it is possible to grant someone else all access to your mailbox on the Exchange server. It can be very usefull when someone leaves the company, giving all acces to a supervisor and/or the person replacing the employee.

First step - To grant someone else full access to an Exchange mailbox:

1. Open "Active Directory Users and Computers".
2. On the left pane, click on "Users" or where the user's account is.
3. On the right pane, right-click the user's account (the one who left) to give access to and click "Properties".
4. Click on the "Exchange Advanced" tab and click on "Mailbox Rights..." button.
5. In the "Permissions for username" window, click on "Add" button.
6. In the "Select Users, Computers or Groups" window, type the name of the account to which you want to give access to (the supervisor or the new employee) and click "OK".
7. Make sure to select the newly added user under "Group or user names".
8. Tick the "Full mailbox access" check box in the Allow column.
9. Click "OK" twice to exit.

This gave access to the mailbox to the other user, now you need to be able access it.

Second step - Configure Outlook to access the other user's Exchange mailbox:

1. Open "MS Outlook".
2. Click on the menu "Tools", then "Options", "Email Accounts".
3. In "Email Accounts" window, select "View or change existing e-mail accounts" and click "Next" button..
4. Slect "Microsoft Exchange Server", click "Change...".
5. Click the "More options..." button.
6. Click the "Advance" tab.
7. Click the "Add" button.
8. Click the "Browse..." button.
9. Type the name or the account you want to gice access to (the supervisor or new employee) and click "OK".
10. Click the "OK" button.
11. Click the "Next >" button.
12. Click the "Finish" button.

All done!