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OWA / Office 2010 / Exchange 2010: Opening another users mailbox in OWA

I want to access other users mailboxs via OWA.
I do NOT want to right click on my name and pick > Open Other Users Mailbox.


I want to go to the upper right hand corner, as shown, and pick 'Open Other Users Mailbox'

http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2010/01/19/opening-other-users-inboxesmailboxes-using-owa-2010/ 


I am new to Exchange 2010, and I am the exchange administrator, I should have full rights to all mailboxes.
Do I have to give myself more permissions, if so please advise what i have to do.

Thx
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Hello,

You can get access to all mailboxes, but before I would like you to reconsider what you are trying to do.
Access to mailboxes is denied for administrator by design for legal reasons. You 'should' not have full rights on mailboxes.

You can do everything without having access to mailboxes, you just can not read mails.

What are you willing to do with this right ?

Finally, you can type this command to grant full access to all mailboxes in all mailboxes database
Get-MailboxDatabase | Add-ADPermission -user [username] -AccessRights GenericAll

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Well let me ask you this, how do I get access to opening a users mailbox in OWA?
I don't want to right click on their mailbox and give myself 'FULL' mailbox permissions.

That is a pain when I am troubleshooting.
I had an issue where the user advised cannot open OWA.   SO i went into OWA and  I did not have the option in the upper right hand corner to open other mailbox.
How do I get that option.

thx
You must click on your name in upper right corner to make the box appear

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Robin_Ottawa

Are you right-clicking on your name in the left-hand column (and not your inbox)? It should be there.
Here is a pic of mine :

As previous members said, you have to have permissions in order to open mailboxes. Admins do not have this by default.
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I think he does not want to open the inbox this way. He wants to make the 'select mailbox' field appear.
It is hidden and you need to left click your name in upper right corner to make it popup.

Winny, there is no other way to access a mailbox than having full rights on the it since OWA will open its root folder with your credentials.

On the other hand, opening just user inbox or calendar does not require much rights, just a delegate. This won't let you open the mailbox using the upper left 'select-mailbox' field.
Gerald you are right, I don't want to right click on my name and click > Open Other User's Inbox.
I want to do it from the upper right hand corner.

So basically your telling me, I have to give myself permissions to access a persons email.

Thanks

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