Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Public Folders

Before Exchange 2007 was released there was much discussion about the fate of public

folders. Was it finally time to remove public folders from Exchange? Public folders can be an

administrator ’ s nightmare because they tend to grow large in size, and can be difficult to manage.

Also, Microsoft suggests Microsoft Office SharePoint Server as the path for migration (

http://

msdn2.microsoft.com/en - us/library/aa579360.aspx

). On the other hand, public folders

still offer features that other solutions do not; one example is data replication.

There are very few changes to the core public - folder architecture in Exchange Server 2007. On the

other hand, there is good news for administrators with Exchange Server 2007 ’ s release. Exchange

Server 2007 removed the hard requirement for new installations to have public folders. Of course,

this depends on fully deploying the new Office Outlook 2007 client. As long as there are prior

Outlook client versions, public folders are required for system folders (that is, calendar free/busy,

offline address book); I will show a method of removing public folders once all clients are

upgraded.

Unlike all previous versions of Exchange, prior to Service Pack 1 there was no public folder

management in the GUI, so all public folder management must be done through PowerShell.

It is also possible to use a free third - party ...