-Chris Madge, MCP
This is one of the things that was simple in Exchange 2000 and 2003 and Microsoft has seen fit to make them a whole heap more difficult with Exchange 2007 and Powershell. Now the concept behind Powershell is a good one. Unfortunately, it is tempremental at best and is here to stay. So we might was well make friends with it.
To give users access to a second mailbox with Outlook a couple of commands must be run on your Exchange 2007 server one of them is this one.
add-mailboxpermission “mailbox” -user “account name” -accessrights fullaccess
The full access element is key, without it Outlook will not let you open the mailbox. Outlook will say that it is unable to expand folders and the end user will have to go to File -> Open -> Other Users Folder to access the other mailbox
To enable the ability to send as the other mailbox this command must be entered in Powershell
add-adpermission “mailbox” -user “account name” -extendedrights send-as
There has been some confusion as to the send-as element. Some technical writers are confused and have put forth that “send as” or “SendAs” should be used. This is not the case in this scenario. “send-as” must be used exactly as written for the desired effect to occur.
Once these two commands have been entered into powershell feel free to add the secondary mailbox into outlook.