In this post, I'm going to describe how to remove unresolved SIDs from public folders in Exchange 2010. But first, let’s talk about what they are and why we care about them. What are unresolved SIDs? When you view the permissions on a file in Windows or an object in Active Directory, you...

When I wrote ExFolders, I thought the non-canonical Exchange ACL problems were permanently behind us in Exchange 2010. For this reason, ExFolders did not include any functionality to deal with non-canonical ACLs. It turns out I was overly optimistic. In the last few weeks I’ve seen a couple...

It’s almost May and I haven’t posted anything yet this year, so it’s definitely time to post a new script. I recently worked with a customer that needed to export the public folder permissions from one Exchange organization and import them into another. The trick was that on the import side, some of...

Due to a mix-up on my part, the April 13th update of ExFolders was actually missing some of the fixes from the previous release. Some of the bits included were from a preview build of ExFolders that was created prior to Exchange 2010 RTM. Oops! The web site was just updated with the proper bits, so please...

Most Exchange administrators have noticed at one time or another that there are folders they can see and access through admin tools such as Exchange System Manager or PFDAVAdmin, but they can’t see or access those same folders through Outlook or OWA. I see a lot of confusion over this issue, so I want...

One of the strengths of the PFDAVAdmin and ExFolders tools is that they can perform an operation against a lot of public folders or mailboxes at once. If you’re doing some sort of export, this can generate a lot of output. So how can you filter the output from PFDAVAdmin or ExFolders to give you just...