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Need VBScript to locate and export ACL of a Exchange Public folder

Fullyfandoo — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:37:57 +0000

Hi,

I’m looking for a VBScript that will search and display complete path of an exchange Public Folder (either using Outlook or other tools) and then export ACL (all members with their permissions”.

For first part, since Outlook search is very slow, it would be nice if the script can do a better job.

Thanks,

Saura

Can’t See New Folders in Public Folders from Outlook

Stamac — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:49:18 +0000

I added new folders to our Public Folders in Exchange 2003. When I open Outlook, cannot see the new folders added. I gave all the right to my group and users.

Public Folder Contacts – Data missing

OSIT09 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:24:50 +0000

Hi Guys, We have an SBS 2008 Machine running Exchange, and we have setup a public folder with contacts in it to share around the company. Problem is that each day we come in and it seems that randomly contacts are disapearing in bulk from the lists. I keep restoring it, but next day another group of contacts will be missing. I ruled out sabotage from a staff member by limiting delete access….Can someone offer me any suggestions…Thanks…William

Exchange/Outlook public folders

Garthur — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:08:15 +0000

An hour ago I discovered an article, which said something unbelievable:
In Outlook Exchange 2007 and 2010 you CAN’T index or search public
folders. I did some research but I’ve found no proof that this is a
wrong information. Do you really have to use third-party-stuff now,
when you want to search public folders????

Exchange 2007 Public Folder permissions and PFDAVAdmin issue

Vtandi — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:16:41 +0000

I have been tasked with making public folders work for our
organization. The main issue I see is that Explicit folder permissions
assigned via Outlook are not working. Specifically, Administrators can
create top level public folders, users can’t (desired), after assigning
a specific user editor permission in a subfolder, the user can still
not do anything but view that folder – cannot create a sub-sub folder
(undesirable). The Exchange Shell is truly frightening!!!!!! (sorry
but who thought that was a good solution as a management tool for us
non-rocket scientists?) The public folder add-on for the Exchange
administrator does not appear to allow for viewing or modification of
permissions. Research seems to indicate that the solution is
PFDAVADmin. Unfortunately, when I run this, while I can connect to
mailboxes, attempting to connect to public folders gives the error:

An error occured while trying to establish a connection to the Exchange
server. Be sure that port 443 (for SSL) or port 80 (for non-SSL) can
be reached. If you are connecting to public folders, be sure that the
public store is mounted. If you are connecting to mailboxes and the
progress bar shows a particular mailbox, be sure that user has at least
one email address.

Exception: Failed to connect using secure URL

htts//Exchangeserver/ExAdmin/Admin/MAHHC.ORG/public%20folders/with
error: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server
Error.. Failed to connect using unsecure URL

http://Exchangeserver/ExAdmin/Admin/MAHHC.ORG/public%20folders/ with
error: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden….

I find this error all over the web, but I do not find any working
solution. The public store is mounted. WebDav is enabled on the
server. Ports 80 and 443 would seem to have to be open since OWA is
working (and yes public folders are visible) – yet I cannot Telnet into
those ports. I get this same error whether running PFDAVAdmin on the
server or on my workstation and yes, my workstation has .Net 1.1 SP1.

I was not involved in the setup of this server – was only told they
have not been able to make these work since downloading a (n
unspecified) tool to help working with public folders. I am hesitant
to play around too much as the rest of the Exchange server (2007) is
working correctly and I do not claim to be an expert.

Any help would be appreciated !!!!!!

Thanks muchly in advance,
Andi

Email Enabled Public Folder

Daewoo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:39:12 +0000

I have an emailed enabled public folder that will not receive email from outside our network. Emails from inside our network are delivered to that folder. I have client permissions for the anonymous user are set to Contributor but it still does not work. The Exchange SysAdmin (me) and the outside sender will eventually recieve and NDR that ” Could not deliver the message in the time limit specified. Please retry or contact your administrator. ”.. Any ideas?

Active directory attribute for Public folder replica server

Inmarmine — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:12:06 +0000

Hi,
I’m using Exchange server 2007 sp1. I want to know the active directory attribute that holds the replica server name of the public folder.

Without using the properties of public folder, i want to change the replication server name of the public folder & its subfolders using active directory object. Is it possible? If yes, please tell me the AD attribute corresponding to replication server name.

thanks

Exchange 2003 Public Calendar, Auto Accept Agent

KeithArmstead — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:49:00 +0000

I have a Small Business Server 2003 with Exchange 2003 sp2 loaded. We have several Public Calendars that users will look at to see where staff are. Meetings, off for the day, at a Client’s site, ect. I have tried to install the AAA on the server, it installed fine, but when I go to run the registermailbox.vbs, I get the message; The given email address could not be resolved to a directory object. Erro getting ADsPath of resource mailbox I am running it as; cscript registermailbox.vbs /F:PublicCalendars.txt I have also run it with the /DEBUG option and can give those results as well, if someone would like. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Keith

Exchange 2003 Single user permissions on multiple Public Folders

RoninV — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:44:47 +0000

Is it possible to grant one user the same permissions on all folders, under the Public Folders tree, instead of setting the permissions on each folder separately? (Exchange 2003, Outlook 2000)

Basically, the user will get permission to create appointments on all calendars, but I’m hoping to do this at one time, instead of having to do it for each calendar, individually.

Public Folder Tree (default location changed)

kevins7420 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:45:45 +0000

Exchange 2003 SP2 Enterprise edition
Windows 2003 Server patched

Under my Administrative Groups folder I have five AG’s. One of those is called Public Folders and the default public folder tree was moved into this Public Folder AG. This was before my time, so I am not sure on the details, but I am trying to figure it out.

1. I’d like to rename that Public Folders AG to Public Folders Management. Is this as easy as just right clicking, selecting rename and hit enter?

2. This Public Folder AG is now suppossedly the Main Public folder tree and if I understand correctly it should reflect the all the public folder’s from the individual public folder stores on each of the EX in the organization. Is this correct?

3. For some reason I cannot see all the public folder’s from this location. I can right click the top level called Public Folders and select Connect To and choose a public folder store to look at, but it doesn’t look like this socalled main public folder tree.

If you think you understand what I am saying, your help is greatly appreciated.