Select How Permissions Apply

A user can inherit a permissions from the parent object. If the Allow and Deny check boxes for a permission are shaded when you select a user or group in the Name box, the recipient has inherited permissions from the parent object. You can change inherited permissions and select the objects the modified permissions apply to.

To change inherited permissions:

1. Start Active Directory Users and Computers
   On the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. In Active Directory Users and Computers, on the View menu, click Advanced Features.
3. In the console tree, expand the Windows 2000 domain. Double-click Users, or double-click the node that contains the recipient information you want to modify.
4. In the details pane, double-click the mailbox-enabled user you are modifying.
5. On the Exchange Advanced tab, click Mailbox Rights.
6. On the Mailbox Rights tab, in Name, select a recipient, and then click Advanced.
7. In the Access Control Settings dialog box, on the Permissions tab, select the same recipient in Permission Entries, and then click View/Edit.
8. On the Object tab, in Permissions, select either the Allow or Deny check box next to each permission.
9. To specify how the permission modifications apply, in the Apply onto drop-down list, make a selection.
10. To prevent these permissions from being inherited by child objects, select the Apply these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container only check box.

11. Important   Clearing or selecting the Apply these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container only check box allows or prevents the modified permissions from propagating outside of the container. It does not impact the permissions this object inherited.

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