viewing mailboxes on exchange server as administrator

[fenris]

I was told by my boss the other day that the user's email at our site should be accessable by the administrator. I have been trying to figure out how to do this with out changing any user configurations. Personally I don't care what the users do with their email as long as it does not comprise the products that are produced by my company. I am sure that it is a simply command or procedure but&nbsp;&nbsp;I am stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br><br><br>fenris<br><br><br><br>

 

[Zelandakh]

This will depend on how you set up your Exchange server. Go to Exchange Admin. Pick any of the users / recipients. Properties, Permissions. If the top box says Administrators inherit permissions then you don't need to do anything.<br><br>Assuming this is the case (and it should be), just log in on any desktop as administrator and change the control panel mail and fax exchange server props to the name you want to check. Then you can open their mailbox. Alternatively, control panel mail and fax exchange server advanced props and add a mailbox name to the box there instead.

 

[fenris]

I have tried your suggestions Zelandahk but they don't seem to work.<br><br>In exchange admin, when I go to a users properties then the permissions. I end up with a window at the top saying accounts with inherited permisions: Permissions Admin and Services Account admin. I can not add anything else to this box. How do I add domain admins to this list?<br><br>fenris

 

[Zelandakh]

You alerady have administrator in there, then use any computer on the network with Outlook, log onto network as admin, set outlook exchange service as the user you want to snoop and away you go.

 

[abovebrd]

I would like to take this one step further. My boss would like to view a weekly archive of a certain users e-mail. We need to see all outbound and inbound mail. We have a security concern. Do you know if and how this type of audit can be done ?<br><br>I am not up to speed on MS exchange and need a little help<br><br>

 

[Zelandakh]

I don't think this is possible. You may be able to set up verbose logging of Exchange to store the whole email, but I thought it only stored the addresses to and from.<br><br>Possibly one way for the future (you can't do anything retroactively) is to create a user rule to bcc you on any email sent out from the user. I have not tried it so I don't know if the user will see you on the distribution list.

 

[abovebrd]

I understand that with Exchange you have to ability to journal e-mail for archive purposes. I read about this in the Windows 2000 Exchange admin magazine. It looks like it would give you the ability to review all or selected mail.<br><br>Any thoughts<br><br>abovebrd