Vermyndax / Delegation Limits on Exchange 2003

Created Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:51:47 +0000 Modified Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:25:52 +0000
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Dear poor reader who ran a search with the term “is there a limit on how many delegates you can have in outlook 2003 when using rpc over http” and ended up at my site:

The answer is yes.

Microsoft recommends you have no more than 4 delegates. They only tested Outlook with 4 delegates and you can expect to have major issues opening the delegates tab when you have anything over 7 delegates.

Also, keep in mind that delegates counts against your 32kb rule limitations, so if the user has a lot of rules and a lot of delegates, they may have a lot of squirrely issues.

As a general rule, you only need to set up a delegate when a user needs to “send on behalf” of you. If they need to add/remove events from your calendar or see items in other folders, it’s best to just grant them straight up sharing permissions to the data (right-click on the folder, choose Sharing).