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...

Exchange 2010 Sp1 Rollup Update 4 released a couple of days ago, and I want to briefly mention one of the fixes it includes. The fix I’m talking about is KB 2506049 , “The hierarchy of a new public folder database on an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 server is not replicated”. You’ll know you’ve hit this problem...

About once a week, someone comes to me about a case where a customer has accidentally deleted all their public folders when they were just trying to get rid of one public folder store. This happens because of threads or blog posts where someone suggests using some variation of this command: Get-PublicFolder...

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...

On Exchange 2010, when you use the Get-PublicFolderStatistics command to look for the statistics of a particular folder, you may see an error like this one: The cmdlet throws an InvalidOperationException saying that it “couldn’t find public folder”. However, if you look at the...

In my previous post , I provided an example script that used EWS to delete items out of public folders. Of course, you can only use EWS if your public folders are on Exchange 2007 or 2010. The example script in this post uses Outlook Object Model instead. This means it has to be run from a machine...

As a result of last week’s virus outbreak, I’ve been getting some questions about how to clean viruses out of public folders. Unfortunately, there’s no equivalent of Export-Mailbox to pull infected messages out of public folders. However, it’s pretty easy to write a script to...

As I’ve previously discussed here and here , there are various things that will prevent an item from replicating to an Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 public folder store – things like bad start/end dates on appointments, category names that contain certain characters, etc. However, once you’ve figured...

In my recent post on the Exchange Team Blog, I briefly mentioned the dangers of forcibly removing an administrative group from ADSI Edit. The most common unintended consequence of this is a deletion of the directory object that represents the Public Folder Hierarchy. Deleting this object creates quite...

May 13, 2010 Edit: The Download Center has been updated with the new build of PFDAVAdmin which contains the fix for this issue. With the release of the new PFDAVAdmin a few weeks ago, some customers started running into an “Ambiguous SID” error when trying to add the Everyone group or Anonymous group...

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...

I just had a customer who needed to migrate contacts from an external database into a public folder. They could export the contacts from the database to a CSV, but they needed a way to get the CSV into the public folder. Last night, I whipped up this quick script. This morning, I was looking at my...

In my post Accessing The Information Store From Powershell , I promised I would post a real-world Outlook Object Model example in the future, so here it is. Back in 2008, I posted part 4 of my public folder replication troubleshooting series on the Exchange Team Blog, with part 4 focused on Exchange...