On-Premises Legacy Public Folder

There are some new recommendations around Legacy Public Folder configuration in Exchange 2013. These settings were introduced in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update (CU) 5.

The recommendation is to make these configuration changes prior to installing CU7 (When it's released…), the recommendation may impact your update depending on legacy version of Exchange see flow diagram below.

Quick guide steps are:

• Legacy Version of Exchange
  • If Exchange 2007
    • Add new Mailbox Database on same server as Public Folder Database
  • If Exchange 2010
    • Ensure server hosting Public Folder database has the Client Access Role installed
    • Add new Mailbox Database on same server as Public Folder Database
• Create a new "Proxy Mailbox" on the database created
• Update Exchange 2013 configuration
  • Set-OrganizationConfig -PublicFoldersEnabled Remote
  • Set-OrganizationConfig -RemotePublicFolderMailboxes "ProxyMailbox1","ProxyMailbox2","ProxyMailbox3"

Source:-
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2014/11/07/on-premises-legacy-public-folder-coexistence-for-exchange-2013-cumulative-update-7-and-beyond.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249373(v=exchg.150).aspx 

 

 

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