In order to access the folder “Sub folder”, you must be granted “Folder visible” permissions on the Inbox folder and the Mailbox itself. Your colleague has the following (simplified) mailbox structure In that case, your colleague needs to set “Folder visible” permissions on the parent folders of the shared folder. Top Mailbox folder-> Properties-> button Advanced-> tab Advanced Setting “Folder visible” permissionsĪfter adding the mailbox, you might not be able to expand it to see its folders. You can reach this dialog faster by right clicking the File-> Account Settings-> Account Settings…-> select your Exchange Account-> button Change-> button More Options …-> tab Advanced-> button Add….To add a mailbox as a secondary mailbox to your existing Exchange account choose The mailbox owner might need to grant you additional “Folder visible” permissions on all the parent folders of this folder for you to actually be able to access the folder.
To access these folders, you must add the mailbox as a secondary mailbox to your existing Exchange account. When I use File-> Open-> Other User’s folders, I can only choose between Outlook’s default folders, but not any that he created himself.Īccessing shared non-default Outlook folders is indeed not possible via the quick method File-> Open-> Other User’s Folder. A colleague of mine has given me permissions to access a couple of his sub folders and an additional Contacts folder that he created.
