Every once in a long while you may need to open another user’s mailbox to look at a suspicious email or delete something someone sent to someone else that they were not supposed to receive. Both are legit and do happen. Here’s what to do:
To give the user “Administrator” and “Administrators” group access to all exchange mailboxes run this command from Powershell with Exchange Add ons loaded:
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (Alias -ne 'Administrator')} | Add-MailboxPermission -User administrator -AccessRights fullaccess -InheritanceType all
Now log into Exchange Webmail with the Administrator account and follow these steps to open the user’s mailbox:
- Click your name in the upper-right corner of the window to open the Open Other Mailbox dialog box.
- Under Select Mailbox, enter the name or alias of the mailbox you want to open and click Open.
- If more than one match is found, a list of possible matches will be displayed.
- Click the name of the mailbox you want to open.
References for detailed reading:
Give an Admin access to Exchange mailboxes
Open another Exchange mailbox