Shared Exchange Mailboxes with Outlook 2010 - Handling Sent & Deleted Items
Submitted by justin on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 14:17
Microsoft Outlook 2010 introduced several new features. Unfortunately, it removed one feature that many organizations utilize: sent items & deleted items support for shared mailboxes. By default, Outlook 2010 will place all sent items and deleted items in the user's mailbox. The issue with this is that users of a shared mailbox cannot see what emails have been sent out or deleted. In Outlook 2007, you could manually enable this feature by adding a registry key. This doesn't work the same way in Outlook 2010. There is a fix though.
- Obtain the hotfix from Microsoft found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2459115
You need will need to fill out the information to have Microsoft send you a link to the hotfixes. There is one for x64 and x86. - Install the provided hotfix.
- On the client computer logged in as the user, add the following registry key (based on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972148):
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Preferences]"DelegateSentItemsStyle "=dword:00000001 - In the mail profile, add each shared mailbox as an account.
- Reboot the computer.
You should now see that the sent and deleted items are stored in the shared mailbox.
It just doesn't work in Outlook online mode
The hotfix mentioned doesn't work with Outlook that runs in online mode ("Use Cached Exchange Mode" parameter is unticked in the properties of Exchange account).
It has for me. In fact all
It has for me. In fact all of the shared mailboxes I've used this on are in online mode with the primary mailbox being in cached mode.
I've seen this solution
I've seen this solution around elsewhere. The MS hotfix was submitted on 14/12/2010, there have been lots outlook updates since then, surely this hotfix has been bundled into one of these later outlook updates??
You would think so. I've
You would think so. I've talked to MS support about this. Their response was that not all posted hotfixes are rolled up into a general release.