PeeluckyDuckee
Diamond Member
Before you folks all jump on me, let me tell you that this is no production server at work or anything, its just a server I'm tinkering around with at home with "dummy" users.
In Windows Explorer, Exchange has created a drive M:. Within that is a folder for the domain, then further down are your users' email account data (INBOX, OUTBOX, etc...). Thing is I tried taking ownership of one of the folders and apply myself permissions to the folder it won't seem to work. So I can't check the users' mail that way.
One way I could do is to reset the password for the user, then use OWA and enter the new credentials to view those emails. Then after I'm done, I can make password changes again so that the person who logs on immediately after will be prompted to change their password. That's about the only way I can think of doing it. Lopthcrack may do that as well, depending on the type and length of password. But by changing the users' password they will know, along with Outlook features that will give the user a "red flag" so to speak that someone has tampered with the email.
If I can just open the user's email folder and read the data off of it, then it may not be known to the user? Or am I mistaken?
I'm just curious as to how to do this, I have no intention of doing this elsewhere. Just curious when employers say they have the right to monitor the email usage of their employees, how do they actually do it.....
Thx.
Plucky
In Windows Explorer, Exchange has created a drive M:. Within that is a folder for the domain, then further down are your users' email account data (INBOX, OUTBOX, etc...). Thing is I tried taking ownership of one of the folders and apply myself permissions to the folder it won't seem to work. So I can't check the users' mail that way.
One way I could do is to reset the password for the user, then use OWA and enter the new credentials to view those emails. Then after I'm done, I can make password changes again so that the person who logs on immediately after will be prompted to change their password. That's about the only way I can think of doing it. Lopthcrack may do that as well, depending on the type and length of password. But by changing the users' password they will know, along with Outlook features that will give the user a "red flag" so to speak that someone has tampered with the email.
If I can just open the user's email folder and read the data off of it, then it may not be known to the user? Or am I mistaken?
I'm just curious as to how to do this, I have no intention of doing this elsewhere. Just curious when employers say they have the right to monitor the email usage of their employees, how do they actually do it.....
Thx.
Plucky
