Adding a shared mailbox to a user's Outlook profile, who has reviewer rights only, via PowerShell

Hello Everyone,
I'm working on trying to create something like a knowledge base for my company, and what I'm trying to accomplish is to create a shared mailbox on 365, add users to have read-only rights to the Inbox (which I can achieve via PowerShell) so they can't delete
the articles, but it seems that by just adding Reviewer permission to a user, it doesn't force the mailbox to open on the end-user's Outlook profile - it only seems to automatically populate if I go through the exchange admin console and allow Full Access
through User Delegation.
Is there a way, via PowerShell, to open a shared mailbox in a user's Outlook profile?
Thanks for all the help!

Hi,
We can create a PRF file that modifies the existing Outlook profile to add the shared mailbox.
Please have a look at this thread which discussed a similar issue:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/374e5a31-1732-45b8-afdd-7c0987e04a7e/how-to-add-additional-mailboxes-in-outlook-for-exchange
For more information about Customize Outlook profiles by using an Outlook Profile (PRF) file, see:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179062(v=office.14).aspx
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

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