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I’ll give you a minute to let that set in… For sites that weren’t large enough to justify a dedicated public folder server, they had their public folder content spread out in random locations. For example, public folder content for UK users was only in the UK, while public folder content for US users was only in the US. If that wasn’t overwhelming enough, the public folder replicas were split up and spread out all over the world. They also had over 2.2 million public folders, topping off at just over 90TB. They had roughly 140 servers spread across about 35 sites. I recently worked on an Office 365 migration project for a customer that had Exchange 2007 on-premises. But that isn’t what this article is about. Public folders are still an ancient way to store anything and everything under the sun in Exchange, creating headaches for Exchange admins for years to come. The move to modern public folders with Exchange 2013 made some drastic improvements, but to call them “modern” seems misleading (and even humorous) to me. Understandably, it is difficult to do away with support for a feature that is so heavily depended on with legacy systems. Microsoft has made promises to do away with them time and time again, yet they are still around and as painful as they have always been. The cause as per the KB article is the improperly formatting the Provisioning registry keys for OWA on the Back-End (mailbox) Exchange Server.Those of you familiar with public folders know how much of a pain they can be. There is also a KB Article (924226) from Microsoft which seems to be similar, although that talks about Contacts specifically the steps are the same. From the Main window, select ‘Logoff’ from the ‘Session’ menu, and then Exit MFCMapi.
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#Find public folders in outlook 2007 download#
Download MfcMapi – also known as the Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Editor.
#Find public folders in outlook 2007 full#
As always you can click on the images to see them in full size. One thing before you continue to the steps below, ensure you are connected to Exchange and logged in to Outlook. If you recalled my post from a few days ago where I have a folder which mysteriously became “invisible”, well there is a fix! Thanks to some of my friends at the mother ship (read Microsoft) in helping out with this – they know who they are and do not need to be named here.