need to access end user mailboxes!!! 1

[quicksaab]

Management sent out an all staff email with everyones salary info and management wants me to go into everyone;s mailbox and delete the message as it was supposed to go to all management. Is there a way I can do this from the server?
I know you can do a recall but don't they have to respond to that (for people who are not at work today)?
I can goto the M: drive and see everyones folder but cannot access without changing auditing. I am new to email administration so I am not sure here....

Thanks!

 

[zoeythecat]

The only way I know of. You need to logon to your workstation as the Exchange Administrator and then create an outlook profile for each user and go into their mailbox and delete the message.

 

[teresar]

Have the sender do the "recall" of the message to start with. Get everyone OUT of e-mail and from there, I'd remove the exchange server from the LAN/WAN (unplug it's cable) until someone who might know how to get the message cleaned up gets to you. The only way I would know how to do it is to change each individual password and signon as the individuals. NOT the best option, but I'd do it in an emergency like this. I'd be very tempted to request the person who sent the message out in the first place be by your side to ensure individuals privacy while you go into e-mail (in other words--share the pain with the idiot who started it!)

 

[fretmeister]

Login as Administrator, open outlook, go to file/open/open other user's folder, type the name of the user and press OK. The inbox is selected by default. It's really pretty easy and you don't need to create any profiles.

 

[zoeythecat]

Fretmeister,

You are correct. I was wrong. However, in order for quicksaab to open up the users folder he needs to be part of Admin groups and also he needs to go to Active Diretory Users and go to the Exchange Advance tab and change the mailbox rights to allow the Admin rights to the mailbox.

THREAD858-705677 (Paulha) explains it here via some Microsoft Articles (See bottom of thread)

 

[Niksen]

in exchange manager, take the infostore offline, then open the offline edb file with: powercontrols from

http://www.ontrack.com/

it opens edb like a zip, then you can quickly browse into boxes and delete.

MVH Nicolai

 

[kiwifish]

I know this is a bit late... why not use EXMERGE.exe from the resource kit? Exmerge can delete any items from selected mailboxes without having to open each one individually. This is also useful if your mailstores happen to get clogged up by a virus.