I am struggling to administer a mailbox even though I am logged on with my exchange admin account. Is there a way to add the group Exchange Administrators to have full permission to an entire Mailbox Database? I had permissions to do what I need to do in Exchange 2003, I have bypassed it by adding Exchange Administrators to the account I needed to help with but do i have to manually do this for every account? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jessica Cochran

Hi Jessica, In the exchange management shell (EMS) use the following command, ensure you edit words in bold to suit your organisation. Get-MailboxDatabase -identity “mailbox database name” | Add-ADPermission -user "username" -AccessRights GenericAll Kind Regards GBFI

Thank you so much! I tried something similiar i must have spelled something wrong. One strange issue I am noticing on accounts moved from 2003 to 2010 is that the actualy user account does not show up as having permission to their own account. They can log on to OWA2010 but some are having issues moving emails around in folders? Does that make sense?Jessica Cochran

Hi Please provide a little more information with regards to how you have carried out the upgrade. exchange 2003 has exchange SP2 installed? You moved the mailboxes from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010 via EMS on exchange 2010? The move process was completed offline? What error do the end users receive upon trying to move emails? The moving of emails fails when moving emails between folders inside the users own mailbox? You ran the following command as part of your exchange 2010 deployment.. setup /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions ? Kind Regards GBFI

Hi, So the root of the mailbox has permissions assigned but subfolders do not? I think you might want to check out exfolders, this link will take you to the exchange 2010 sp1 version... http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Exchange-2010-SP1-ExFolders-e6bfd405 Be careful to read the "read me" that comes with it, if pre-req's are not taken care of the app will fail to run but otherwise is very useful. It will allow you to create a set of permissions that can then be applied to multiple mailboxes. I hope this is useful. Kind Regards