How to Share a Folder in Outlook 2013

I was asked to share an Outlook 2013 folder for a user and I ran into a scenario…most imformation out there targets older versions of Outlook and Exchange. We run Exchange 2016 and Outlook 2013 (latest version), so most of the information out there didn’t work for me, so I decided to document how I was able to achieve sharing folders in Outlook 2013.

For this excersice we’re going to share a folder named: Test Folder

From the mailbox we want to share Outlook folders

1. Right-click on the user’s mailbox name and select Folder Permissions
2. Next, click on Permissions tab and Add the user you’re going to allow to access, or share, the folder(s)
3. View the screenshot for the permissions settings
4. Next, right click on the Inbox folder and click on Properties
5. Click on Permissions tab and you’re going to add the same user you added at the mailbox permissions level (step 3)
6. View the screenshot for the permissions settings
7. Next, you’re going to right click on the folder you want to share and click on Properties
8. Click on Permissions tab and you’re going to add the same user again
9. Permissions here are set based on your requirements
10. View the screenshot for the permissions settings
11. That’s all that needs to be done
12. The next and final step is to go to the Outlook client of the user that needs access to the folder and add the mailbox

 

These steps worked for me, none of the other information out there worked.

NMIS 8.5.2G E-mail Notifications Using Exchange As Relay

In the past few weeks, I started working with NMIS. The application does a great job monitoring all sorts of devices. I decided to use the free version, so support is mainly based on whatever is found on the web or from NMIS’ email group.

It took me a few tries to enable email relay notifications in NMIS, and the few blogs that I found only touched on enabling email notifications using NMIS itself to deliver emails. In my case, I wanted to use my Exchange 2010 server to be the one responsible for delivering emails on behalf of NMIS.

Here’s what you’ll need:

1. A working NMIS environment
1. I downloaded the NMIS appliance and got the application to work in an hour.
2. A working installation of a mail daemon in the linux box where NMIS is running
1. For my environment I used sendmail, so most of these steps are related to sendmail.
3. A working installation of Exchange server

Prepare Sendmail To Relay

1. Logon to the linux server where NMIS is running from
2. Go to /etc/mail directory
3. run vi sendmail.cf
1. You can use any file editor, I just prefer vi
4. If using vi type: /DSsmtp
1. /  does a search for string DSsmtp
5. Once that line is found, then you’ll want to change it to:  DSsmtp.YourDomain.com
6. Save the file and reload sendmail services

Prepare Exchange Server To Accept Relay

1. Logon to your hub Exchange server
2. Follow the next screenshot

Configure Emails, Notifications and Escalations in NMIS

It took me quite a bit of time to understand how notifications and escalations work in NMIS; there are many blogs that do a decent job explaining this topic, so I’m not going to go into details.

First, you have to setup Contacts in NMIS. NMIS creates some default contacts, so you can use one of these or create your own.

Note: Take a look at the field Contact, since I chose one of the default contacts created by NMIS, I’m using Contact1

Second, create your email notifications and escalations to send notifications to your contact.

Once again, I’m using a default notification and escalation. Notice that I’m using the same contact name, Contact1, to send notifications.

There is a catch though. This will send email  for all Level 1 and Level 4 notifications for ALL devices that you have added to NMIS. Prepare yourself for all the spam!

Let this run for a few days, so you learn what each level of notification is. Basically, Level 0 is severity major, Level 1 is a severity warning; this is based on the email notifications I gathered in a week of spamming. I use this to create filtered notifications, read along.

When you add devices to NMIS, hopefully you created groups and added these devices to different groups. Also, when you add devices to NMIS, you have to indicate what type of device is, and these fields will allow you to filter your notifications based on groups, type, etc. Here’s an example.

In this example, I’m receiving text message notifications for routers in my DataCenter group that generate Level 0 and Level 1 events.