Viewing mailbox contents as administrator

[Bealy]

HOw do I get permissions to view users mailboxes without them knowing(for auditing reasons).
I want to be able to go into Outlook and view other users inbox.
I do not want to have to add myself to each mailbox.

Bealy

 

[dmandell]

Do you already have service account admin rights?
or are you a domain admin?
Can you log in as domain admin?
Usually the domain admin has already been asigned these rights.

 

[Bealy]

I have both DOmain Admin rights and Exchange Service admin rights.
I have logged out and in again.
Still no good.
Any ideas?

 

[dmandell]

What client are you using? I am assuming that you are opening outlook to your own mailbox, and then from tools, services, Microsoft exchange server, advanced, adding the mailbox you want to view.

 

[Bealy]

Yeh I have tried that as well as "File/Open/ other user's folder". Still no access granted.
Do you think I should reset the Exchservice account and log in as that user?

 

[dmandell]

Do not reset the exch service account!
But you could always log in as the exch. service account user if you need to.

 

[GWINTO]

Click the domain that the recipients fall into>File>Properties, move onto the permissions tab, add yourself

You should now be able to view all accounts through your own via Outlook>services>properties>advanced>add mailbox

You may need to stop and start the inforformation store for the permissions to take effect

If you can't see the permissions tab click Tools>options>permissions and enable the tab from here