They continue to persist despite seemingly being on the edge of extinction several times. To me, public folders are the cockroaches of Exchange. Update: If you’re interested in upgrading to Exchange 2013 and need to migrate some public folders to the modern format (or indeed, to migrate some public folders to Exchange Online in Office 365), then you might like to read my thoughts on the migration process.

If you like this kind of content about Exchange Server, why not follow me on Twitter so that you receive updates when I post material. Part 2 is available here and part 3 here. The chapter was supposed to be published as an extra that could be downloaded but that hasn’t happened to date, so here it is. This probably made sense as the book should really be focused on all the new technology that’s included in Exchange 2010 rather than the older stuff – and public folders have been around since 1996. For space reasons to keep the book to a reasonable size, the chapter on public folders was removed. This content comes from a chapter removed from my book Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, also available at .uk (including a Kindle edition ).

All public folders in outlook