Content and Attachment Gatherings—Granting Mailbox Access for Exchange 2000 or 2003 Servers
You can grant Full Mailbox Access using Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) for a single mailbox, or you can use Exchange System Manager (ESM) for all mailboxes. Use the following steps to grant Full Mailbox Access to mailboxes on Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 servers.
To grant Full Mailbox Access to a mailbox using ADUC
1. Open the ADUC MMC snap-in (console).
2. Open the User or Group Properties for the Active Directory Object associated with the mailbox from which you want to gather.
3. Select the Exchange Advanced tab and click Mailbox Rights.
4. In the Permissions dialog box, click Advanced.
5. Add Full Mailbox Access for the account used for the Content and Attachment gathering.
To grant Full Mailbox Access to all mailboxes using ESM
1. Open the properties for an Exchange server using Exchange System Manager.
2. Select the Security Tab.
3. Grant Send As and Receive As permissions to the account used for the Content and Attachment gathering.
Content and Attachment Gatherings—Granting Mailbox Access for Exchange 2007 Servers
Use the following steps to grant Full Mailbox Access to mailboxes on Exchange 2007 servers using PowerShell cmdlets. To grant Full Mailbox Access to a specific mailbox in Exchange 2007
1. Open Windows PowerShell.
2. Run the Add-MailboxPermission command in Windows PowerShell.
3. For example, if the mailbox is called mailboxName and the account is called userName, the command would be:
Add-MailboxPermission -id:mailboxName -User:userName -AccessRights FullAccess
To grant Full Mailbox Access to all mailboxes in Exchange 2007
1. Open Windows Powershell.
2. Use the Add-ADPermission command in Windows PowerShell to grant the Send-As and Receive-As permissions.
3. For example, if the server is called MyServer and the account is called UserA, the commands are as follows:
Get-MailboxServer MyServer | Add-ADPermission -User:UserA -ExtendedRights Send-As
Get-MailboxServer MyServer | Add-ADPermission -User:UserA -ExtendedRights Receive-As
Content and Attachment Gatherings—Granting Mailbox Access for Exchange 2010 Servers
In Exchange 2010, when permissions are assigned to the server object, the permissions cannot be propagated down to the mailbox databases since the databases are not located under the server object in AD. Use the following steps to grant Full Mailbox Access to mailboxes on Exchange 2010 servers using PowerShell cmdlets.
To grant Full Mailbox Access to the entire server in Exchange 2010
1. Open Windows Powershell.
2. Use the Add-ADPermission command in Windows PowerShell to grant the Send-As and Receive-As permissions.
3. For example, if the server is called MyServer and the account is called UserA, the commands are as follows:
Get-MailboxServer Myserver | Get-MailboxDatabase | Add-ADPermission -User "UserA" -ExtendedRights Send-As, Receive-As
To grant Full Mailbox Access to a specific mailbox database in Exchange 2010
1. Open Windows PowerShell.
2. Run the Add-MailboxPermission command in Windows PowerShell.
3. For example, if the mailbox database is called DatabaseName and the account is called userName, the command would be:
Get-MailboxDatabase Databasename | Add-ADPermission -User "userName" -ExtendedRights Send-As, Receive-As
