Chapter 35. Delegating Responsibilities to an Assistant

Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007, when used with Microsoft Exchange Server, provides features that allow you to delegate certain responsibilities to an assistant. For example, you might want your assistant to manage your schedule, setting up appointments, meetings, and other events for you. Or perhaps you want your assistant to send e-mail messages on your behalf.

This chapter explains how to delegate access to your schedule, e-mail messages, and other Office Outlook 2007 data, granting an assistant the ability to perform tasks in Outlook 2007 on your behalf. This chapter also explains how to access folders for which you’ve been granted delegate access.

Delegation Overview

Why delegate? You could simply give assistants your logon credentials and allow them to access your Exchange Server mailbox through a separate profile on their systems. The disadvantage to that approach is that your assistants then have access to all your Outlook 2007 data. By using the Outlook 2007 delegation features, however, you can selectively restrict an assistant’s access to your data.

You have two ways of delegating access in Outlook 2007. First, you can specify individuals as delegates for your account, which gives them send-on-behalf-of privileges. This means that the delegated individuals can perform such tasks as sending e-mail messages and meeting requests for you. When an assistant sends a meeting request on your behalf, the request appears to the recipients to have come from you. You can also specify that delegates should receive copies of meeting-related messages that are sent to you, such as meeting invitations. This is a necessity if you want an assistant to be able to handle your calendar.

The second way you can delegate access is to configure permissions for individual folders, granting various levels of access within the folders as needed. This does not give other users send-on-behalf-of privileges but does give them access to the folder and its contents. The tasks they can perform in the folder are subject to the permission levels you grant them.

Note

When a message is sent on your behalf, the recipient sees these words in the From box: <delegate> on behalf of <owner>, where <delegate> and <owner> are replaced by the appropriate names. This designation appears in the header of the message form when the recipient opens the message but doesn’t appear in the header in the Inbox. The Inbox shows the message as coming from the owner, not the delegate.

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