Adding a Second Mailbox to Outlook 2007
by Warlock on Apr.07, 2009, under Office
Sometimes you may need to add additional mailboxes to your Outlook 2007 client beyond just your own. First, you have to be given security rights to access the mailbox, but that is outside the scope of this post.
The simplest way to do this is to use the File menu and open another user’s folder. This keeps on giving me errors, however, so the approach detailed below is the way I end up doing things.
First, go to to the Tools menu, and select the Account Settings… option:
Next, select your existing account in the Email tab and click on the Change… button:
Click the More Settings… button:
Select the Advanced tab and click on the Add… button to add another account to Outlook:
Enter the mailbox name and click OK:
The new mailbox should now be appearing in Outlooks list of folders:
March 10th, 2010 on 6:00 pm
Thank you! These directions ROCK! They are by far the simplest, most straighforward directions I have seen on how to do this (and far less confusing than the directions I got from IT staff)!
March 17th, 2010 on 2:40 pm
Awesome !
March 18th, 2010 on 10:47 pm
Is that the one-true, California-resident Sameer?
April 21st, 2010 on 1:23 am
Do you have to have the full version of Exchange to do this?
April 21st, 2010 on 9:57 pm
Hi Cate,
I’m not sure what you mean by this. I’m not aware of a “lite” version of Exchange. You do need to have Outlook connecting to an Exchange server (as opposed to connecting via IMAP or something), if that’s what you mean.
-Ryan