AD/Outlook - Send As permission

daztrouk · 12 Sep 2006 at 19:29

Hey all, had a bit of an issue at work earlier, that i'd like to get sorted for tomorrow. We have a secretary who basically needs access to her bosses mailbox (they both use outlook 2000) from her machine.

Via her Office outlook 2000, she needs to be able to send emails from his account as though they were actually sent by him. She can't send them so they say 'secretary on behalf off boss', they simply need to say from 'boss'.

I found many online guides which all said the same thing, however, when i tried to set this up, it failed. In short the guides were all similar to the link :
http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/msexchange/exch_howto_grant_send_as.htm

however, when i follow these instructions, i get an error message which states 'you do not have permissions to send the message on behalf of the specified user'.

Im pulling my hair out here, anyone know how i can resolve this issue?

Steve09 · 12 Sep 2006 at 19:34

Is she trying to screw her boss over with dodgy e-mails to his clients

lol serious now

Do you each have a user area on the PC's
Like your own username and password

Maybe she has to be signed into his "area" to be able to send e-mails from his address

aix0 · 12 Sep 2006 at 20:23

You could try going into Active Directory, go to view and checked that 'advanced view' is ticked. Locate the boss's user account, right click - properties, goto the 'exchange advanced' tab and select 'mailbox right'.

From there you should be able to add and configure the secretary's user account with appropriate permissions to access the mailbox.

Andyt_uk · 12 Sep 2006 at 23:13

take a look at delegates. Cant remember off the top of my head but i think its in outlook options and you'll need to do it on the bosses PC. A quick google on "outlook delegates" will help though.

Also check in AD under the bosses user account, its on one of the Exchange tabs, delivery options i think. Add them in there.

I can take a look at work tomorrow to get the headings names etc but that bit should point you in the right direction at least.

daztrouk · 13 Sep 2006 at 07:25

thanks all, i'll take a look into it at work and let you know how i get on

oddjob62 · 13 Sep 2006 at 08:05

It's definately the security tab in the AD users properties. That give you send as rights for a user. I've set it up loads of times.