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Setting SendAs of Send on Behalf Of Permissions in Exchange Online / BPOS

Until recently a Service Requested needed to be sent in to grant users SendAs of SendOnBehalfOf permissions to another users mailbox. With the availability of the new Migration Tools and Microsoft Online Services administrators are now able to grant these permissions themselves through PowerShell.

• GrantFullAccess: Grant full permissions of one Exchange Online user to the mailbox of another Exchange Online user.
• GrantSendAs: This allows an Exchange Online user to send mails As another user.
• GrantSendOnBehalfOf: An Exchange Online User is now able to send mails on behalf of another user.

The command used in PowerShell to grant other users access to a mailbox is Add-MSOnlineMailPermission.

So in order to grant user1@msonline.com Send As permissions on the mailbox of user2@msonline.com the following command would be used:

PS> Add-MSOnlineMailPermission Identity user1@msonline.com -TrustedUser user2@msonline.com–GrantSendAs True

The full string for this command is:

Add-MSOnlineMailPermission [-GrantSendAs] [-Identity] <String> [-Credential <PSCredential>] -TrustedUser <string> [-GrantFullAccess]

Or

Add-MSOnlineMailPermission [-GrantSendOnBehalfOf] [-Identity] <String> [-Credential <PSCredential>] -TrustedUser <string> [-GrantFullAccess]

Next to setting the user permissions the user permission can also be deleted. For this the command Remove-MSOnlineMailPermission is used.

The full string for this command is:

Remove-MSOnlineMailPermission [-RemoveSendAs] [-Identity] <String> [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-RemoveSendAs] [-RemoveFullAccess] -TrustedUser <string>

Or

Remove-MSOnlineMailPermission [-RemoveSendOnBehalfOf] [-Identity] <String> [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-RemoveSendAs] [-RemoveFullAccess] -TrustedUser <string>

Webinar: BPOS 101

From the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog:

On January 21st, Jim Glynn will demonstrate how to explore Microsoft Online Services and demo the basic BPOS feature set. During this webinar, Jim will:

• Install the sign in application
• Send and receive e-mail via Outlook and Outlook Web Access
• Create and receive a meeting invitation
• Create a SharePoint site collection and a SharePoint workspace
• Schedule a Live Meeting
• Start a Meet Now meeting and invite an attendee
• Install and start Communicator

Date: January 21, 2010     
Event Start Time: 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (UTC - 8 hours)
Duration: 1 hour

Click here to register for this webinar.

Presenter:
Jim Glynn
Senior Content Project Manager, Microsoft

Jim Glynn joined Microsoft in 1998 and currently works on the Microsoft Online Services community. During Jim's career with Microsoft, he has worked as a technical writer and program manager on projects like Windows Server, Active Directory, Small Business Server, Live Meeting, and now Microsoft Online Services.

For 14 years before joining Microsoft, Jim held several different positions, including Production Manager, Director of Technical Support, Technical Writing Manager, and Technical Sales Support in a 50 person Redmond, WA hardware and software company that developed products for the statistical process control (SPC) industry. He travelled extensively, participated in trade shows, and trained customers, support and field personnel. Jim also managed the company's network, phone system, BBS, and web site. During this time, Jim also earned his MCSE and MCT certifications, worked as a technical trainer, and consultant.

When he's not working, Jim can usually be found hiking and scrambling with friends and family in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

Exchange Online SendAs feature

Over the last few days I've had a discussion about the SendAs functionality in Exchange 2007 regarding Exchange Online. The SendAs function is by default not available from Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007. Neither is it in Exchange Online. In an on premise environment you can turn on the SendAs feature in the Exchange Management Console. This post on technet describes the way to do this.

Exchange Online doesn't provide access to the Exchange Management Console. Therefor an Exchange Online / BPOS administrator cannot turn on the SendAs functionality. However as I understand it from a colleague Microsoft Online Services does support this function. In order to get it up and running an email can be set to Microsoft Support and it will be activated.

Exchange 2010 will however supply this functionality by default straight from OWA. Amit Tank wrote an article about this. Not only Sand-As but also Send on Behalf Of is supported.

BPOS & Windows 7

On October 22nd Microsoft will launch Windows 7. Currently our company is doing several trial implementations with Windows 7 for a variety of customers. Interesting is that almost all applications which work under Windows Vista, also work with Windows 7. However; BPOS integraton with Windows 7 has some minor issues. The Single Sign In tool, Outlook integration, Live Meeting and OCS work fine. However, integration with SharePoint Online gives a lot of problems. Especially opening document libraries with the Windows Explorer 8 doesn't work.

The official Microsoft statement is that Microsoft Online Services will support Windows 7 from its launch date.