Delegation is a hodgepodge of several different bits of functionality.
The big picture idea is "someone else deals with your mail or
calendar, or you deal with theirs".
When you make someone a delegate in
Outlook, the dialog lets you do a bunch of
things:
You can edit their permissions on all of your folders in
one easy place.
If you give them "Editor" permission on your Calendar,
you can cause them to also get copies of your meeting
requests.
If you make at least one person get copies of your
meeting requests, you can make yourself not get them any
more.
You can make it possible (on a per-delegate basis) for
your delegates to be able to see "Private" appointments,
contacts, and tasks in your folders. (Normally other
people can't see your Private items regardless of what
permissions you give them.)
Your delegate automatically becomes able to send mail from
your address. Outlook doesn't
actually allow you to enable/disable this functionality
independently of calling someone a delegate, although it's
possible to do so.
Different pieces of this information are stored in different places:
Permissions information is stored in the security
descriptors of the relevant folders.
Outlook always adds the user to
each of the delegatable folders (Inbox, Calendar, Contacts,
Journal, Notes, and Tasks) even if they only have "None"
permission there. The user is also added to the security
descriptor of the "Freebusy Data" folder in the non-IPM subtree,
with None or Reviewer permission if they have None or Reviewer
on Calendar, and Editor permission if they have Author or
Editor on Calendar.
Who-can-send-mail-as-who data is kept in Active
Directory. Your delegates are stored in the
multivalued publicDelegates property on
your AD entry. When you modify that property, AD automatically
maintains back links in other entries'
publicDelegatesBL properties. (Thus, by
checking your own publicDelegatesBL
property, you can find out who you are a delegate for.)
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Three multivalued MAPI properties on
NON_IPM_SUBTREE/Freebusy%20Data/LocalFreebusy.EML
also track your delegates:
PR_DELEGATES_DISPLAY_NAMES |
display names of delegates |
PR_DELEGATES_ENTRYIDS |
ENTRYIDS of delegates |
PR_DELEGATES_SEE_PRIVATE |
boolean "can see private items" values
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Meeting request forwarding is controlled by a server-side rule in
Inbox with a PR_RULE_MSG_PROVIDER of
"Schedule+ EMS Interface"
