Hi All I have been tasked with the following and I am not sure on the best way to go about it. Our CEO wants his e-mails read by the their intended Ops board recipients only. Now we have PA's who manage these inboxes for the Ops board members and have full permissions granted through the exchange server so they can create sub-folders and such. Ideally we need a dedicated folder for any emails sent by him to go into where PA's cannot read them. The only soloution I can come up with is removing top level privaliges and managing the permissions manually. But this is bad for the PA's as they may need to create sub folders in the Ops boards inboxes. If anyone has any suggestions it really would be appreciated. We are running Exchange 2007 and Active Directory.

If the users have full mailbox access, then you cannot stop those users from reading anything in the mailbox. Permissions in the mailbox wouldn't apply because the full mailbox overrides. Therefore you would have to remove the full mailbox access, then grant permissions in Outlook. Sub folders only inherit permissions on creation, so this will be a lot of work to change manually. You would have to look at other tools to do it for you. pfdavadmin should be able to make the changes for you centrally. Simon.Simon Butler, Exchange MVP Blog | Exchange Resources

Hi Simon, Thanks for your reply. Is there any tools anyone could recommend to bulk edit permissions within Outlook?

PFDAVADMIM should be able to do this. You can create the settings on the topfolder and then propagate the settings to subfolders /MartinExchange is a passion not just a collaboration software.