Delegated access to personal mailboxes

How to give someone else permission to access your personal Exchange Online mailbox; how to manage the mailboxes you have been given delegated access to.

Using Delegate Access, you can give someone permission to act on your behalf. For example, you might have an assistant that you want to create and respond to meeting requests for you. Some assistants might also monitor a manager's Inbox and send email on their behalf.

Granting delegated access to your mailbox

• Allow someone else to manage your mail and calendar:
  • What does Delegate Access do?
  • Make someone my delegate
  • Change permissions for a delegate
  • Change delegate access to private items

Access someone else's mailbox

• Access another person's mailbox:
  • Access another person’s mailbox in Outlook
  • Add another person’s mailbox to your folder list in Outlook Web App
  • Open another person’s mailbox in a separate browser window in Outlook Web App

Manage someone else's mailbox

• Manage another person's mail and calendar items:
  • Add another person's mailbox to your profile
  • Open another person's folders
  • Send or respond to meeting requests on behalf of another person
  • Create or reply to an email message on behalf of another person
  • Send an email message on behalf of a group
  • Save sent items in another person's Sent Items folder