Finding users with full access to mailboxes

One of the issues with assigning full mailbox access to users and support personnel is that things change over time. People change roles, move to other departments, or even leave the organization. Keeping track of all of this and removing full access permissions when required can be challenging in a fast-paced environment. This recipe will allow you to solve that issue using the Exchange Management Shell to find out exactly who has full access permissions for the mailboxes in your environment.

How to do it...

To find all of the users or groups who have been assigned full access rights to a mailbox, use the Get-MailboxPermission cmdlet:

Get-MailboxPermission -Identity administrator | 
 Where-Object {$_.AccessRights ...

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