Author: Steve Man

How to Assign a mail enabled security group review permission on a room mailbox calendar

To add a mail enabled universal security group to a room mailbox calendar, so that they can review calendar, please follow these steps
1. Create the room mailbox. Note that room mailbox user account is disabled by default
2. Assign full access to the room using the security group
3. Have the manager(who is a member of the security group) login into his/her mailbox and open the room mailbox as well. (see other blog post on how to open another mailbox within your profile)
4 Open the calendar(belonging to room mailbox) and assign reviewer permission to the group
You are done. Now every member of that group can go to file, open other users folder, choose calendar and they can search for the room

Set Explicit permissions to a mailbox you want to access from OWA 2007

How to set Explicit permissions to a mailbox you want to access from OWA 2007

Notes from troubleshooting
To open a user’s mailbox from OWA, you must have explicit full mailbox access granted by the administrator.
This explicit access must be granted by powershell.
If a user can’t access a user’s mailbox via owa 2007, you may follow these steps to troubleshoot and resolve the issue

step 1
for eg Get-MailboxPermission -identity “pbrown51” will tell you current permissions set for pbrown51
Access rights must be {FullAccess} and isInherited must be false. If this is not the case, you
must use this command to apply explicit fullaccess to the mailbox:
step 2
Add-MailboxPermission -identity “pbrown51” -User “ondubui1” -AccessRights “FullAccess”

How to download address book changes only

How to download address book changes only

Download address book changes only

  1. Click on Tools, send-receive, download address book.
  2. Check download changes since last send/receive
  3. Under information to download, choose full details. (you may also choose no details for faster download)
  4. choose Global Address List as the address book
  5. Click ok

How to Download Full Address Book for Outlook Cache Mode Users

How to Download Full Address Book for Outlook Cache Mode Users

If Outlook is left running constantly in Cached Exchange Mode, it updates the Offline Address Book automatically about once a day, depending on Address Book updates on the server running Exchange.

To initiate Full Update manually, do the following:

  1. On the Tools menu, point to Send/Receive, and then click Download Address Book.

2. uncheck Download changes since last send/receive
3. Under information to dowload, check full details
4. Choose Global Address List under address book

Click Ok and wait for few minutes to complete download

How to configure outlook 2003(w sp2)cached mode customers to use OAB online

For Outlook 2007 customers this doesn’t need to be applied. For 2003 customers(with sp2 or 3) who refuse to use outlook 2007 for whatever reason, but have their mailbox homed on Exchange 2007, you can apply this registry setting to force Outlook to use online Global Address List when they use Cached Exchange Mode:
Outlook 2003
HKEY_Current_userSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0OutlookCached Mode
Parameter: DownloadOAB
Type:REG_DWORD
Value: 0
Close outlook and restart Outlook.
THis has been tested and it works great