Hi There, A member of our Accounts team have have left and the rest of the team need access to this persons mailbox. I want to only give read-only access so what is the easiest way of doing this? Thanks Bhavin

This should help http://exchangeshare.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/how-to-setup-read-only-mailbox-in-exchange-20032007/ Jasjit Singh Dhindsa | ITIL v3 | IASA Foundation Certified | MCITP: EMA 2010/2007 | MCTS: MES 2010/2007, OCS 2007 | MCSA: M+S | MCSE: M+S

And this is fine for Exchange 2010 as well?

Yes will work exchange 2010 as well. As its mentioned that so pls check and update if things doesn't work. Active Directory Mailbox ACLs – Full Mailbox Permission requires in the mailbox ACLs at Active Directory level to access mails, so this is not correct place where we can configure Read-Only permission. MAPI Folder Permissions – This is the correct place for our requirement. Let’s discuss how to do so.

Thanks for your help. I'll give that a go. Cheers

Any update ? pls

Will the MAPI folder permissions apply to users that are accessing the mailbox via OWA or IMAP? Our compliance officer works out of another state and uses OWA to access the journaling mailboxes that have been set up and ideally we want to give read only access. Fred Sawyer MCP

I have with success used the latest version of the ExFolders utility, on a Hosted Exchange 2010SP2 installation http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Exchange-2010-SP1-ExFolders-e6bfd405 Remember to read the readme file, and run the .reg file or the commands specified there. Also, for Exchange 2010 SP2, it is NEEDED, that the user running ExFolders has Full Access permissions, to the Mailbox He want to modify. I have added the user with Read permission to the mailbox(Using "Folder Permissions"), and then run the "Propogate Folder ACEs" to add the rights, to the mailbox subfolders.