This article will discuss the steps on How to grant Access to User Mailbox. Since we will be utilizing the Exchange Admin Center (EMC) for this, lets discuss what it is. EAC is the web-based management console in Exchange Server that’s optimized for on-premises, online, and hybrid Exchange deployments. Please see How to add or remove email addresses from a mailbox, and Email Size Limits: Boost for High Profile Users in Exchange 2010.
When you grant a user Full Access permission to a mailbox, that user has full access to only the mailbox for which the permissions are applied. With Full Access permission, the user can open and read the contents of the mailbox.
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Grant Full Access permission for a mailbox
To use the EMC to grant Full Access permission for a mailbox. You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the “Permissions and delegation” entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.
- In the console tree,
– navigate to Recipient Configuration > Mailbox.
– In the result pane, select the mailbox for which you want to grant Full Access permission.
- In the action pane, under the mailbox name,
– Click Manage Full Access Permission. The Manage Full Access Permission wizard opens.
– On the Manage Full Access Permission page, click Add.
– In Select User or Group, select the user to which you want to grant Full Access permission, and then
– Click OK.
Click Manage, on the completion page, the summary states whether Full Access permission was successfully granted. The summary also displays the Shell command used to grant Full Access permission. Click Finish.
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