Outlook Forms Administration

[ron040401]

Scenario: Company has a non-technical person administer a setup where desktops use Outlook 2000 to access a MS Mail mailbox stored on a domain on an NT 4.0 server. This person has left the company and a new person has taken over the administration. The company employs extensive custom forms.

Can the forms administration/rights be transferred to the new person's account?

rrascal

 

[cmeagan656]

Yes, we've done it. However, if your existing custom forms are password protected for editing then you'll need to know the password the previous person was using in order to edit the existing custom forms.

Cheers.

 

[ron040401]

I have the password. However, when I checked the properties of various forms, the Administrator "Change Password" field is greyed out.

 

[cmeagan656]

Log on to Exchange - assuming 5.5 since its on an NT 4.0 server - as the Exchange Admin, and give the new user "owner" permissions (or whatever permissions you want them to have) from there. After that they will be able use the existing password to acces the forms. The password for the forms editing is totally separate from any domain authentication passwords so as long as the user has Outlook open they can edit the forms.

I'd also give yourself (or administrator) owner permissions, if you're permitted to by company policy, so that if you ever have to change the permissions again you can do it without having to log on as Exchange admin.

Cheers.

 

[ron040401]

This is not an Exchange setup. The company is still using Microsoft Mail on an NT 4.0. Perhaps I can do the same thing if I access the Microsoft Mail Adminnistrator tool... just as soon as I figure out how to get past the Admin password which also went out the door with the former employee.