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O_Schmidt's avatar
O_Schmidt
Level 5
7 years ago

Remove Public Folders with Enterprise Vault?

Hi,

we want to abolish our Exchange Public Folders. We use Exchange 2010 and want to migrate to Exchange 2016.
Today we don´t archive any public folders with EV.
What is the best practice to migrate our public folders to EV to use the mails and objects in Exchange 2016 within a shared mailbox?

One of our thoughts was to export all items of a public folder to a pst file and import it to a shared mailbox and archive it with ev.
This means a lot of manual work to do.

Is it possible to archive all objects from a public folder and asscociate this archive to a shared mailbox or something like this?

EV 12.2.3 (12.3.1 soon)
Exchange 2010 (Exchange 2016 soon)

  • FLX's avatar
    FLX
    Level 4
    7 years ago

    as far as I know, there is no out of the box new-mailboxexportrequest Cmdlet for Exchange PublicFolders.

    So I think you have 3 options:

    - a lot of manual work as mentioned (pst export). but you can maybe instruct folder owners to do that for you

    - if you are a scripting guy, take a look into Exchange EWS API and create your export pf script by your own

    - Just archive Public Folders with a lower retention category (so they will arrive EOL quite faster)

    maybe you can join 1) and 3) together as condition so end user will create PST files.