Fine grained Outlook Item Security in Exchange Folders

[Jonathan]

I've spent my time on the train over the last few weeks in Sue
Mosher's Outlook Programming book. Handy stuff indeed. Now I'm
putting into practice by trying to put a few Outlook forms together to
help with some simple forms processes in my company e.g. new security
pass request procedure with a couple of review and approval steps.

I'm trying to kludge a but of workflow using outlook forms and
changing item status and form for the next step by changing
Item.MessageClass value. Dont want to get into MS Exchange workflow
if I can avoid it.

So now I want to make sure that people taking part in the process
can't edit items in the folder that they shouldn't. But as far as I
can see, Outlook/Exchange doesn't let me change security on an
indivual basis, just for the folder as a whole. Or am I missing
something? Can I programmitically change access permissions for an
item? Which object/method? How about just changing the owner of an
item programmitically which might help me use folder permissions.

Cheers,

Jonathan

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

That's exactly the way it works. Security is at the folder-level, unless you want to dig deeply into Exchange 2000/2003 item-level security, for which there is no equivalent in the Outlook object model.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers