11 June 2012

Remove mailbox Full Access permission (hide mailbox in Outlook 2010)

Outlook 2010 introduces a nice feature. When you add a full access permission to a user for a mailbox (Recipient Configuration/Mailbox right click on specific user),

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then this mailbox will be visible automatically in Outlook (not instantly, but at least after Outlook restart and waiting for few seconds).

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But when you remove the Full Access permission using Exchange Management Console, strangely two commands are issued:

  1. First command removes the permission and
  2. Second one adds the DENY permission.

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It wouldn’t be a problem, but Outlook still shows the extra mailbox and doesn’t allow to remove it. The solution is to remove this permission using Exchange Management Shell:

Remove-MailboxPermission user1 -User user2 -AccessRights FullAccess

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Where user1 is the extra mailbox displayed in your Outlook (for example a room mailbox) and user2 is your mailbox. After closing and opening the Outlook (or waiting several minutes/hours without closing) the extra mailbox will disappear.

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1 comment:

  1. I find it useful also to use those two commands in conjunction. First one is for adding user Full right and second one for removing the right:

    Add-MailboxPermission user1 -User user2 -AccessRights FullAccess

    Remove-MailboxPermission user1 -User user2 -AccessRights FullAccess

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