The more I work with PowerShell the more impressed I am with how useful of a tool it is to manage Exchange. In this blog I want to illustrate how easy it is to pull Public Folder data from your Exchange environment and export that data into a HTML format.  I think in every environment I have ever worked in or supported, Public Folders have grown out of control. This causes organizations to have to back up and replicate old and irrelevant data. Most administrators ignore cleaning up Public F... [More]

One of the worst things about Exchange is dealing with public folders. Has many of you know sometimes you will come into a situation where you need to delete a Public Folder from ADSIEdit. I have been working with Exchange for a long time and have had the opportunity to work in some large and very complex environments and situations but, to this day nothing gets my heart racing like messing around with Public Folders in ADSIEdit. I have put together a lab to show you some of the steps needed to ... [More]

When opening the properties of a mail-enabled Public Folder you get the error message, The mail proxy for this folder cannot be found. This may be due to replication delays. The mail enabled pages will not be shown. ID no: c1038a21. There are a couple reasons behind why this issues is being generated. I put together some common troubleshooting steps that might help resolve this issue for you.   Here are some of the more common troubleshooting steps: 1. Make sure the MESO contai... [More]

I always find that my customers hit a stumbling block when it comes to the flexibility of move public folders. There are a lot of good articles on the internet that helps admins move public folders and I cover some of those options in this blog however, in large environments I couldn’t find any posts that provided the flexibility needed for replication of PFs. In light of this need, I created a script that allows admins to modify the PFs that want to migrate with the ability to choose whic... [More]