By the way - MSFT has not deprecated public folders. That was something that they "floated" to see if customers would allow it. Customers responded with a resounding "hell no, you won't go!"
Public folders are a mature feature, they are not planned for any significant enhancements, but there are no current plans to remove their capabilities. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 6:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving Public Folders and what are people using instead of Public Folders. Just an observation. Just because Microsoft wants people to do something doesn't mean you should do that thing, especially if it's not necessary, either for your business plan or due to technology. Another observation: PF's still exist in 2010. If PF's have disappeared by the time of your NEXT Exchange migration, and you follow the pattern of the past, that will be in the year 2017 or 2018. Meanwhile, you have 6-7 years to continue using PF's and plan the migration to something else. (Nope, I'm not much of a proponent of change for change's sake...) Carl From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:kevan.dickin...@cmi-plc.com] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 6:37 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Archiving Public Folders and what are people using instead of Public Folders. All At the moment our Exchange Environment is 2003. We will be upgrading to Exchange 2010 in the near future. We use Public Folders fairly extensively for receiving email that is accessed by a number of people in various teams. Typically an email arrives in the top level folder and is then moved into other folders within the top level folder such as Actioned, Awaiting Evidence, completed etc. Many of the emails we receive contain attachments which contain reports and photographs. We have 100's of Public Folders, Some quiet large some with just a few emails in. Our largest is 5Gb containing 7,000 items. I have just found one Public folder which contains 18,000 items although it's size is only 700mb. Most of the Public Folders contain information going back a number of years which is not really need any more but has not been archived. Over the last few days I have been Archiving the worst offenders to PST files and then making those PST files available to 1 member of each team for future reference. We do not use Public Folder Quota's at the moment. I tried setting a maximum size, but was unable to set a size larger than 2Gb, which I need to at the moment, to accommodate the 8 folders currently larger than this. Most of our Public Folders are between 500mb and 1.5Gb. Our total pub1.edb is 90Gb and the pub1.stm is 25Gb. I have 2 questions. Since Microsoft want people to stop using Public Folders. What are you using instead? Shared Mailboxes? SharePoint? (We currently have Windows SharePoint Services 3, Which we use quiet extensively. But we do not allow emailing directly to a SharePoint site). Or something else. How are you archiving email that is in a Public Folder? Currently I am just selecting all the email older than a certain date and moving it into a PST file. We use the Red Gate Exchange Server Archiver for Archiving our regular Mailboxes but this does not have a feature for Archiving Public Folders. Any help or Guidance appreciated. Regards Kevan Dickinson Network Manager NSF-CMI 23 Lodge Road Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough, Oxford, OX29 8SJ, UK T:+44 01993 885661 E:kevan.dickin...@nsf-cmi.com W:www.nsf-cmi.com --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
