Delegate perms for calendar sharing in Exchange 2003 1

[tk808]

Hello,

I did a search on this, but didn't find anything specific. I want to delegate perms to a manager so that this manager can view the calendars of his direct reports and their direct reports.

I know this can be done at the client, but how about on the server side? In ESM? Please advise.

Thanks in advance!

 

[tk808]

Actually, I think I did it. I just added the manager in the "Mailbox rights" window.

 

[nickpark]

Except I expect that now the manager can add the employee's whole mailbox to his profile and read, edit, and delete all folders including email.

eek.

 

[tk808]

Yes, true, but is there any other way without having the direct report do anything? I know the "share calendar" option, and security properties of the calendar but there are too many people to do this manually...

What are all of your ideas?


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[nickpark]

You could add yourself with "Full Mailbox Permissions" to the affected users, then add their Mailbox onto your Outlook Profile via Tools->Email Accounts->View or Change->Change->More->Advanced->Add.
Then go to their calendar and share as required.

Believe me, I wish there was a way to script Calendar permissions - I know you can use acl.dll with some CDO and script them but it looked pretty complicated to me.

I will issue a Howto guide for 500 new users explaining how to Share your Calendar to All, and how to share your Calendar to specific people/groups.

 

[nickpark]

I just searched for acl.dll and found this:

http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/2003/07/setting_calenda.html

Haven't tried it though.

 

[nickpark]

http://www.slipstick.com/exs/permissions.htm

 

[tk808]

Much thanks for the links. I see that it is "experimenting" when using the acl.dll option.

That is also true that I could add each person in my own mailbox as a secondary. At least I don't risk user error. For some odd reason I push these time consuming options to the side in hope of a quicker/automated one. My, what technology has done to us!

Thanks again, nickpark.