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Gaah! I hate SBS.

I have one client using SBS 4.5. I normally will not touch an SBS Server and I only took them on because they were desperate (no one will touch SBS around here and it costs a fortune to bring someone in from Orlando) and they're friends.

I've had to setup 2 new users on a couple of workstations (2 employees being replaced). I have the two new users setup on their workstations just fine, but I'm having one problem.

Some of the other users need to see the new user's Outlook folders (Calendar & inbox). I had a problem with this once before about a year ago when I added a new user and I forget how I got it working.

I know about adding the new user's names in the other user's advanced Exchange settings. I've done that and a main folder for them will appear in the other user's Outlook BUT if you try to open it (expand the tree) I get an error saying the folders can't be opened.

I can, of course, see all their folders just fine from the administrator's account on the server.

I assume I have to setup some kind of permission for this but I don't remember how I did it last time.

I've done some searches on KB but I can't find anything that helps. Anyone just have a walkthru they can point me towards for this?

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ANOTHER PROBLEM: One of the existing users needs to share ALL his Outlook folders with another user (his secretary). Right now she can only see his calendar and his inbox. She needs to see all his outlook folders.

I assume that he has to grant permission for this somehow.


Thanks....

i don't know Exchange from back then...and this is probably obvious (so forgive me if you already checked)....

can you right-click on the new users' folders, choose properties, then permissions (when logged in as the new users)? that's for more recent versions of Outlook...

the secretary should be made a delegate for the boss's folders...if that's the same as current versions there is a delegates tab under properties as well. then you can set various levels such as reviewer, etc.

Thanks for the reply.

I did find this information here on Delegates: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Departments/Page ... &Page=3721

I assume this should solve both my problems?

The thing is that I'm certain I didn't have to do this last time to just allow others read access to the calendar, but it seems I can do it all from here.

Anything I'm missing?

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It's getting harder to find tech info on SBS 4.5 - Microsoft is really pulling the plug on it. Very little comes up on the KB search anymore, and google searches mostly bring up SBS 2000 info

Upgrade to SBS 2000 is not an option, first because they won't spend the money and second because I won't do it. I know my limits and I don't want to deal with SBS if I have a choice and an upgrade is more aggravation than I want. If I can find them someone local who's an SBS expert I'll gladly turn the account over to him (and I know he'll insist on upgrading them to 2000).

I HATE SBS. "Small Business Server" is an oxy-moron. You need a full time administrator to keep the damn thing running smooth and what small business can afford that?

I only have one other client running SBS (SBS 2000) but they don't use the server for ANYTHING except file serving. Damn waste of money actually - they would have been better off just putting 2000 Pro on there since all they're doing is Peer-to-Peer file sharing among 8 workstations. Pissed their money away on that OS and the server version of Seagate's tape backup software.

i feel your pain. i'll check with the exchange admins tomorrow at work and see if they know anything about the older versions. delegates are used alot at my company by the execs and their admin assistants and it caused nothing but problems when we were on 5.5. now that we're on 2000 it's a bit better, but still messed in regards to people's calendars.

imagine the cluster $@#% when you have an executive that can go into their calendar and accept/decline/schedule meetings...then their delegate(s) that do the same...then each of them are using laptops with offline folders (syncing at different times with the server)...AND each of them have PDA's that can modify items in Outlook...all synced at different times! it's a HUGE problem to troubleshoot that type of situation.