Adding shared mailbox to outlook remotely

[evasion]

So far best results in using outlook with shared mailboxes have been achieved by adding a shared mailbox to users' outlook manually (account settings, new ...) plus login/password multiple times and restarting outlook. Then user is able to send from shared mailbox, look at separate inbox folders etc.

This method has to be repeated each time users' roaming profile is reset (all settings are saved in user registry), so this is not very practical and there seems to be no method supported by power shell to do this remotely.

Already tried using Exchange 2010 shell or management console which only give limited results (user cannot send from shared mailbox added this way), so it has to be done on the client side via outlook wizard.

Another problem - once shared mailboxes have been added, it is possible to export relevant section of user's registry for backup remotely, but not possible to add/merge once roaming profile has been reset (local gpo security prevents access to registry editing).

 

Is there a method to achieve adding shared mailbox remotely that works?

 

thanks for any advice

[chaplic]

Giving Full Control of the mailbox will cause it to pop up automatically in outlook (you'll also want to add send-as)

Automapping needs to be enabled too

 

Mailbox Auto-Mapping in Exchange Server 2010 (Part 1)

[evasion]

Thanks, that has already been tried and tested. The problem with giving full permissions is that when a person sends an email ‘from’ that mailbox, it will go into that person’s sent folder rather than the sent folder of the shared mailbox. Then other users sharng the same mailbox, cannot see what was sent.

[Bumhug360]

There is a fix for that

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2632409

[evasion]

thanks, hopefully I won't have to do that because exchange 2010 is being upgraded to 2016 just now.

[evasion]

To complete shared mailbox setup after adding send as/full mailbox permissions in ecp, run this in exchange shell:

 

set-mailbox -MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled $True

 

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2015/03/03/want-more-control-over-sent-items-when-using-shared-mailboxes/

tested and working in Exchange 2016, emails sent form shared mailbox will go to shared mailbox sent folder.

Edited November 1, 2018 by evasion