Hi all I have more than 300 mailbox in exchange 2007 SP3 environment. Is there a way to send an email and get a feed back of how many users opened that email? OR can I enforce the "request a read receipt" for the email without requsting users' permission?. Thanks Ayman

Hi, If they are all using outlook means try to enable read receipt for all through GPO. These may help you. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/get-delivery-and-read-receipt-confirmations-HP010080428.aspx http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/policies.htmKottees : My Blog : Please mark it as an answer if it really helps you.

Hi Thnak you for your response. but i need it only for specifc emails not all emails. is there a privllage or permission that can be assigned to enforce the "read recipet"? Thanks Ayman 

the admin privilege is enough to force the GPO. through you enabled read recipient it will only work when the sender is requesting for it. Kottees : My Blog : Please mark it as an answer if it really helps you.

On Tue, 29 May 2012 08:15:41 +0000, --Ayman-- wrote: >I have more than 300 mailbox in exchange 2007 SP3 environment. > >Is there a way to send an email and get a feed back of how many users opened that email? > >OR can I enforce the "request a read receipt" for the email without requsting users' permission?. Send the message with a "Voting button". Tell people to acknowlege the message by clicking the appropriate button and you can track who acknowleged the receipt of the message. Or you can write your own code to use EWS and visit every mailbox looking for the message and then record it's "read" status. What you'll do about people like me that read the message in the reading pane and then delete the message is up to you. Did I read the message? Yes. Can you tell I did? No. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

I dont want this feature to be available for all users, only specific acconts should have the ability to force the "read recipet" is this possible through GPO. Or Any other Ideas??!! Thanks Ayman

hi, I think it can be done. You can create a OU and then add those users that you allow them use the feature into the OU. Link the GPO to the OU. hope can help you thanks,CastinLu TechNet Community Support

Hi castinlu your suggestion to create an OU is for the recipient side, and I am asking for the admin account side to have and option or a way to send an email and to get "read recipets" without user interaction. Thanks Ayman      

I don't think what you're trying to achieve is possible. Send an email, even if an admin sends to normal users, it's down to the users to respond to the read receipt, if they read the message and dont want to send the read receipt reply, then thats it, you can't have a GPO to to enforce a read reciept reply for these users for certain messages. Wont work. Sukh

Hi Sukh828 My understading is the GPO admin. template is only have 3 options : 1. always send 2. ask before sending 3. never send as shown in the this screen shot. Plz explain how a GPO could be enforced for "Certain messages" as you said. Thanks Ayman 

Hi Sorry, it's exactly that what I'm saying, missed the 't after the can. Hence why I say it wont workSukh

Any other Ideas???!!!