Re: "Send as" works incorrectly

From: Eric Tam [MSFT] (ericta_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:39:09 -0500

The Information Store does contain cached information that can last for up
to two hours. This cache contains information including permissions and the
home server value. This would explain why permission changes (or mailbox
moves) may not take effect immediately.

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"Rocks" <rocks12@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Boris Lokhvitsky wrote:
>
>> This may seem a silly question, but Internet is surprisingly full of
>> descriptions of problems that people have when tryinmg to use the "send
>> as" feature. I am troubleshooting my own case for the fair two days
>> already, still getting some weird results. So, if somebody can help...
>> here goes.
>>
>> Exchange 2003 SP1 on Windows 2003. Client - Outlook 2003 (connected as 
>> RPC
>> over HTTPS though I think it doesn't matter).
>> Two users - UserA and UserB. Both are just ordinary users, members of
>> "Domain Users" group only. UserB account is disabled.
>> UserA needs to be able to send e-mails as if they are coming from UserB -
>> specifying the UserB in the "From" field when composing an e-mail.
>>
>> Theer are multiple solutions described in MS KB articles. All different,
>> and articles Q327000, 327174, and 281208 even contradict each other
>> describing where security permission "Send as" should be applied - all
>> saying different things.
>>
>> In my case, I did the following:
>> 1. In UserB properties, Security tab, click Advanced and grant the "Send
>> As" permission to UserA, select "Apply onto" - "User objects".
>> 2. In UserB properties, Exchange Advanced, Mailbox rights, grant full
>> mailbox access rights to UserA. This doesn't seem to be necessary but
>> shouldn't hurt anyway.
>>
>> It works fine if UserA is member of Exchange administrators group
>> (Exchange View Only Admin role). However, it doesn't work when he is
>> removed from this group. I get error message "You don't have permissions
>> to perform this operation on that object" when clicking the "Send" 
>> button.
>>
>> Can anybody help? Not only to make it work, finally, but to bring clarity
>> what is the necessary and sufficient set of rights/privileges for the 
>> user
>> to be able to "send as" other user within the same Exchange organization?
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance,
>> Boris
>
> After you added the permissions how long did you wait before trying to
> Send-As? I have run into this before and can't explain why but if we let
> this sit for about 2hrs it works.
>
> Pat