Public folders in hosted Exchange 2013

Hi,
Is it possible to setup public folders for a tenant i Exchange 2013, eg. with custom id 0 set or something like that?
Thanks!

Hi,
If you want to deploy public folders in an Exchange 2013 multi-tenant environment, you can create a public folder mailbox per tenant.
Here is a related thread for your reference.
Public Folder Hierarchy and PF Mailboxes for Hosted setup?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/e9062abe-f484-462b-bc5e-ebdcb0862760/public-folder-hierarchy-and-pf-mailboxes-for-hosted-setup?forum=exchangesvradmin
More information about public folder in Exchange 2013 here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj552408.aspx
Best regards,
Belinda
Belinda Ma
TechNet Community Support

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Hi Belinda,
Thank you for responding. Yes you do understand my problem correctly. One correction is that after deleting this entry in ADSIEdit, we couldn't access public folders at all either in Outlook or OWA. I followed these steps in the below article:
http://blog.bruteforcetech.com/archives/766
After following these steps and recreating the entry on FolderHieachies in ADSI edit, I was able to gain access to the public folders again through Outlook, but still can't see them in OWA and can't access them in Public Folder Management Console.
Here are the results to your requests:
et-PublicFolder -Recurse | Format-List Name
Name : IPM_SUBTREE
Can't get the public folder database using legacy distinguished name '/O=HEROIX CORPORATION/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRAT
GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=CONFIGURATION/CN=SERVERS/CN=EXCHANGE2010/CN=MICROSOFT PUBLIC MDB'.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-PublicFolder], TaskInvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : B546E0B0,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.MapiTasks.GetPublicFolder
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-PublicFolder -Identity \NON_IPM_SUBTREE -Recurse | Format-List Name
Name : NON_IPM_SUBTREE
Name : EFORMS REGISTRY
Can't get the public folder database using legacy distinguished name '/O=HEROIX CORPORATION/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=CONFIGURATION/CN=SERVERS/CN=EXCHANGE2010/CN=MICROSOFT PUBLIC MDB'.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-PublicFolder], TaskInvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : B546E0B0,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.MapiTasks.GetPublicFolder
Also the msExchOwningPFTree attribute should be correct because this was edited with the correct value when I followed the instructions in the above article:
CN=Public Folders,CN=Folder Hierarchies,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Heroix Corporation,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=hero,DC=net

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Two companies (lets call them WestCoast Company and EastCoast Company) have merged. Each one has Ex2010 with PFs of local scope (the companies don't need access to each other's PFs). I want to move them to a single Exchange Organization with one Exchange
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There is just one public folder hierarchy. You can assign sub-trees under the root to different mailbox databases, though, and through permissions you could restrict who can see each of them.
You can have public folder mailboxes mounted in different mailbox databases, with different databases mounted in different locations. So you could have the Europe folders in a mailbox in a mailbox database mounted on a European server, and the Americas
folders in a mailbox in a mailbox database mounted on an Americas server.
You can do that but only by grouping public folder mailboxes in mailbox databases that are mounted where you want them to be mounted. As stated before, you might be able to hide folders through permissions, not by where they are mounted.
Yes, the 10,000-folder limit applies to the organization. If you have more than that, wait until the limit is increased.
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Tried to search for a good solution for what I need but always redirected to places of office365.
I will explain what i need and maybe you could find me a good solution.
I have several offices that i give IT support. Some of them with exchange 2003 and some with 2007-2010.
I want to migrate their servers to my new hosted exchange 2013 (multi-tenancy).
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Aditya Mediratta

Hi Aditya,
please find the answer in
http://blogs.technet.com/b/agobbi/archive/2010/08/04/how-to-move-public-folder-from-exchange-2003-to-exchagne-2010.aspx
Please ensure you have a working mailflow from Exchange 2003 to 2010, vice versa, before you begin.
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Update-PublicFolderHierarchy -Server "Exchange 2010 Server"
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Please do the following steps to create an Exchange Online mailbox in your Hybrid environment:
Method 1: Create a remote mailbox for an existing user.
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Method 2: Directly create a new remote mailbox.
1. Create the remote mailbox in On-premise Exchange server by running:
$Credentials = Get-Credential
New-RemoteMailbox -Name "Test2" -Password $Credentials.Password -UserPrincipalName
[email protected]
2. Launch dirsync and assign a license to the newly created user with Office 365 account.
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For more information about the remote mailbox, please refer to:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/archive/2011/08/24/exchange-online-exchange-on-premises-shared-namespace-how-about-mail-routing.aspx
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Public folders in Mixed Exchange environment

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The bulk of my users are still on 2007, but I have a couple thousand already moved to 2013. All users can access the Public Folders on Exch 2007.
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to 2007, will the Exch 2007 and Exch 2013 users be able to access it?
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For Exchange 2010 or Ex2007 you will need to setup the replication but for Exchange 2013 it is different.
what is your plan,, do you want to keep them on 2013 or 2010 or you want keep the mix environment?
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Lid: 3010 StoreEc: 0x8004010F
Lid: 3010 StoreEc: 0x8004010F
Lid: 3650 StoreEc: 0x8004010F
Lid: 18128 StoreEc: 0x469
Lid: 18536 StoreEc: 0x469
Lid: 18544 StoreEc: 0x469
Lid: 18560 StoreEc: 0x469
Lid: 18740 StoreEc: 0x469
Lid: 1267 StoreEc: 0x469
Lid: 33819 StoreEc: 0x469
Lid: 27225 StoreEc: 0x469
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This is what happens when I try to run that command:
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WARNING: The recipient "amicalolaemc.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/OAB Version 2" is invalid and couldn't be
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WARNING: The recipient "amicalolaemc.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/OAB Version 3a" is invalid and couldn't b
updated.
WARNING: The recipient "***.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/OAB Version 4" is invalid and couldn't be
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WARNING: The recipient "***.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/Schedule+ Free Busy Information - First
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WARNING: The recipient "***.com/Users/SystemMailbox{1f05a927-2cd9-4dbe-8f19-98848d21a898}" is invalid and
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WARNING: The recipient "***.com/Users/SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9}" is invalid and
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WARNING: The recipient "***.com/Users/FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf-00a95fa1e042" is invalid and
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Hi,
The error message also mentions that your system mailboxes are invalid. Please run the Get-Mailbox -Arbitration command to check result.
Besides, please find the following objects under the Microsoft Exchange System Objects container and delete them to check result.
OAB Version 2
OAB Version 3a
OAB Version 4
Schedule+ Free Busy Information - First Administrative Group
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https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/92264b4d-56d5-4354-b3aa-828f18e0068f/exchange-2010-orphaned-public-folder-gal-entries
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