That's too bad. We have thousands of PFs and have always encouraged people to opt for a PF rather than a mailbox anytime they need somewhere to receive email to be viewed by people who already had a mailbox. In 5.5, PFs worked pretty much flawlessly. In 2000, they're terrible. The rules just stop working intermittently. The PFs that receive mostly outside mail are now posts, so the rules don't work at all on those anymore. The user role permissions are finally cleaned up so that Exchange 2000 can interpret them. We only have replicas on one of our 2000 servers now since replication caused too much latency. Sometimes, even though we have owner permissions on all of the PFs, if we use Outlook 2002 to view the properties, we're told we don't have permission, but if we view them in OL2000, we can make whatever changes an owner should be able to make. Searching for something in PFs used to be a breeze when they were on our 5.5 servers, now, you may or may not find what you're looking for even though you know it's in there.
We're getting to the point that it would be easier to create mailboxes for the PFs that we constantly get called on, the ones with rules that stop working, mostly, and that's such a waste to have to create a mailbox when all you really need is a PF. I'd guess we got maybe 10 PF calls in the 5 years we've been running Exchange for actual problems with the server, not the usual, user doesn't understand the permissions calls, and now that we've moved our PFs to E2K, we get at least 10 calls a week with PF server issues, if not more. We've turned logging up to highest on everything to do with PFs and nothing ever shows up in the logs to give us a clue as to why they sometimes work and sometimes don't. When the forwarding rules stop working, a server restart is the only thing that fixes it. I'm really beginning to hate PFs. When I went to MEC2000, in one of the classes, they said that in E2K, you'd be able to change permissions on PFs without replacing permissions - what happened to that? Wouldn't that be helpful when you have thousands of PFs? I know, PFAdmin, which may or may not work correctly. -----Original Message----- From: Webb, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:36 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IPM.Post VS. IPM.Note The line is that it was actually broken in 5.5 and they "fixed" it in E2K. Why there can't be a choice between Post type public folders and Note (email message) type public folders I don't understand. Actually I do - $$$. There /could/ be a choice if enough people griped about it. At this point, E2K3 is pretty much in the can and so it won't change much there. Since anything "collaborative" about public folders seems headed toward Sharepoint databases, there's probably not much harm in making PF's actually do mail correctly going forward. ======================================== ERM (Exchange Resource Manager) Released http://www.swinc.com/erm ======================================== -----Original Message----- From: Joshua R. Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Friday, June 20, 2003 2:31 PM Posted To: Microsoft Exchange Conversation: IPM.Post VS. IPM.Note Subject: RE: IPM.Post VS. IPM.Note Question then.... Why did they change the functionality? It worked in 5.5 Joshua Morgan Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Siegfried Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:16 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IPM.Post VS. IPM.Note 1. The script (which is a slightly modified version of http://www.cdolive.com/changemessageclass.htm) your co-worker found is designed for the Exchange Event Service which is only provided in Exchange 2000/2003 for backwards compatibility and I would not recommend using it with Exchange 2000/2003 due to being not reliable. 2. The issue you are facing not being able to reply to public folder messages will neither be fixed with KB817809 nor the script you mentioned or the one Andy Webb pointed you to. This is a limitation of Outlook Web Access 2000. <Cheers:Siegfried runat="server" /> Development Lead, CDOLive LLC - The Microsoft Messaging and Collaboration Application Experts http://www.cdolive.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua R. Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:58 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: IPM.Post VS. IPM.Note > > > Windows 2000 SP3 > Exchange 2000 SP3 > > Looks like Microsoft released this yesterday. > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817809 > > Has anybody had any experience with this issue? We see it because we > are unable to reply or forward a message in a Public Folder when it is > accessed through OWA. I was wondering if anyone had any workarounds > until the SP is released, currently I am troubleshooting issues with > this Script that a coworker of mine found online. > http://www.netcomitc.com/post2note/esa.htm All help is appreciated, Joshua Joshua Morgan Method IQ Senior Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
