Chapter 17

Migrating public folders to Exchange Online

Exchange Online prerequisites

Configuring hybrid public folders

Public folder migration

Post-migration configuration

Troubleshooting

What’s next?

Public folders are a storage concept that allows multiple users to post and read data in a folder-like structure from within Outlook. Public folders were originally introduced in Exchange 4.0 in 1996 and included their own database and multi-master replication structure. With the release of Exchange Server 5.5, public folders were updated to allow them to receive email.

With Exchange 2013, the architecture was updated to use the database availability group (DAG) storage and replication engine. The public folder contents are now stored inside a ...

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