Steps to Set Full Access Permissions on Office 365 account
- PowerShell commands to set full access rights
Execute the below commands in PowerShell (Run as Administrator)
- Click on the Windows Start button.
- Search for Windows PowerShell (PowerShell should already be installed).
- Start PowerShell under an administrator context (right-click -> run as administrator)
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Command: Copy & Paste it on PowerShellSet-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
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Command: Copy & Paste it on PowerShell$LiveCred = Get-Credential
Enter the User Name (SMTP) and Password of Office 365 account having Global Admin credentials.
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Command: Copy & Paste it on PowerShell$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
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Command: Copy & Paste it on PowerShellImport-PSSession $Session
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Assign Full Access permission to single user mailbox.
Command: Copy & Paste it on PowerShell$shared = read-host "Enter Shared Mailbox Name"
$User = read-host "Enter Full Name of User";
Add-MailboxPermission "$Shared" -User "$User" -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType all
- Set full access rights with Office 365 GUI.
1. Login to the Office 365 account
2. In Office 365 account, go to Admin
3. In the menu bar select Users option
4. Under users menu, select Active users
5. After selecting the active users, you’ll be displayed with the list of users where you can select the users to assign full access permission.
6. In the user profile, select the Mail option
7. Under Mail, click the Manage mailbox permissions option
8. To edit the mailbox permissions, click the Edit option in the Read and manage row.
9. Next click the button Add permissions to add permissions to the user
10. In the next window, list of users will be displayed where you need to select the user(s) to set permissions and click Save button to set full access permissions
11. After assigning the full access permission. Click the Close button.
