Grant PF access permission to a shared mailbox on Exchange 2007 server

If you try to grant public folder access permission to a shared mailbox, you will get the following message and failed to add the user to PF access list, Permission TAB:

 

One or more users cannot be added toe the folder access list. Non-local users cannot be given rights on this server

 

 

To work around with this issue, we will have to use Exchange 2007 management

Shell cmdlet to set the mailbox to user mailbox. Here is the cmdlet I used and tested it works.

 

Set-mailbox mailbox_Name –type regular

 

Where: mailbox_name could be mailbox alias or associated account ID, say, Your_Netbios_domain_name\user_ID

 

Note: a shared mailbox could be a resource mailbox or a manager's mailbox shared with other users.