owner wants to have access to everyones email

[davedave1234]

I gave the owner enough rights in Exchange 5.5 to open eveyones mail through outlook in File> Open> Open Other Users Folder in outlook but it only lets you open the inbox, calander, contacts and things like that. What he wants is to be able to open the deleted items and any personal folders they have. I know I can set up a profile for every user but that is not such a great option. Please let me know if there is some way of doing this or if there is somehting I can get to do this.
Thanks in advance,

 

[tahoe2]

There is a better way. Lock down Exchange and do not let users create any personal folders, then set the deleted items folders to save deleted items for several days. That way, the owner can go in at his leisure and sift through yours and your fellow employees' emails.

If that won't work try this:

First, make sure that you cover your own a$$ in doing this as several municipalities have laws against such things.

Then, if you're in the clear, just give the owner admin rights, give the admin account full permissions on Exchange and the admin account can now open anyones email, just as if the admin was that person.

Be warned, however, that when the user logs in, they will notice any changes that have been made, like mail being marked as read or unread. Also, this can make for a nasty lawsuit.

Personally, I would question exactly why the owner wants this info before I turned states evidence on myself and my co-workers.

Corie

 

[yoshie]

Another way would be to give the owner usernames and passwords to the users he/she wishs to spy on and let the owner access email via OWA then he/she can see everything.

Thats how I see whats going on with the email.

On the point of lawsuits, we have work place agreements and electronic communications policies in place, our computers, our email servers, our bandwidth = our data and our right to see whats going on.

Just a point of view and another way to see all users email.

Hope it helps

Yosh

 

[davedave1234]

Thanks for your help, I will try both replies and see witch he wants. We also have a statement you sign when you start stating that it is our equipment and anything on it or going through it is our property and we have the right to do with it as we see fit.

 

[Spirit]

I would go to the Owner Admin route then show the boss how to add additional mailboxes to his mail profile. This way he has total access to everything in a familiar and user friendly GUI.

Make sure that all users know that they are being monitored its only illegal if they don't know! As it sounds like everyday snooping and not snooping for illegal activities which you can use to justify covert monitoring.

Fun stuff huh?

Iain

 

[davedave1234]

I decided on OWA because we were looking into setting up some sort of access to users from outside. So I went to install OWA on our web server and it turns out the CD I have is an upgrade to 5.5 and it tells me I need to have an existing install of exchange before I can install. The major issue with this is before I got here they had a outside company doing all the IT work and they must have taken the full exchange CD with them because it is not here. They deny this, so what I want to know is there a way to install OWA on a separate server from our exchange with the upgrade CD I have?