An Exchange Online mailbox owned by no single person, such as a team's info address. Several people get Full Access to read it and send from it using Send As or Send on Behalf.
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Terms in this definition
- Exchange Online
Microsoft 365's hosted service for mail, calendars and contacts. Defender for Office 365 protects these mailboxes.
- Get
Key Vault permission on secrets that allows a single secret to be read; App Service Key Vault references need nothing beyond it.
- Full Access
A permission in Exchange Online that allows a delegate to open another person's mailbox and read, create or delete items in it. It does not allow sending messages as or for the owner; that requires Send As or Send on Behalf.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- Send As
An Exchange Online delegate permission under which messages look as though the mailbox or group itself sent them, with nothing revealing who actually did. Send on Behalf is the alternative that shows the delegate.
- Send on Behalf
An Exchange Online delegate permission under which recipients see that the delegate sent the message for the mailbox owner. Send As, by contrast, conceals the delegate entirely.