I am using a beta Exchange 2007 SP1, we have a problem where a Public Folder Administrator give rights to a user to create the folder with custom rights i.e. cannot delete, but as soon the user create the folder He/She becomes the owner of the new subfolder the Rights of the Parent folder donot carry to the new subfolderhow can I set so that the Rights of the parent folder carry forward to the new subfolderthanks in advance

by defaulta new created subfolder should have the rights inherited from his parent til the creater (owner) changes it. did you try to use DAVAdmin?check these and inform as.Get-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "\Marketing" | flGet-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "\Marketing\Datamarket" -User ismailcould you see ismail's rights under Datamarket folder?MCSE,CCNA,VCP,APP

Thanksbut the parent folder is created by the administrator for public folder the subfolder is created by another exchange user the exchange user becomes the owner of the new subfolder created by him thought the parent folder creator owner has specified the rights to subfolder creator as reviewer he becomes the creator owner of that folder

you could change the create owner of the subfolder.MCSE,CCNA,VCP,APP

i can but by default the creator of the subfolder becomes the owner of the folderi dont want the creator to become the owner i want the user to creat the sub folder but still get the same right as allowed to him in the particular parent folder The parent folder rights do no carry forward for the creator of the subfoldere.g. if i create a parent folder say "ABC" with rights assigned to XYZ user to create subfolder only with reviewer to the parent folder the user XYZ becomes the owner of the subfolder and can propagate further rights to other user where by he is only a reveiwer to the parent folder with sub folder creation rightsthe rights of ABC folder do not carry to the new folder created by XYZthanks

below articles may help you; Configuring Public Folder Permissionshttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310789.aspxAdministrative Rights Are Not Automatically Applied to Public Folder Subfoldershttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/815916 Public Folder Issues http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb331955.aspxMCSE,CCNA,VCP,APP

Per my knowledge, its an expected behavior that creator of subfolder has the owner permission on the subfolder. Logically, since user XYZ is the creator of the subfolder, XYZ shall be the owner of that folder, otherwise, why XYZ has the permission to create that folder? So, if we give a user the ability to create subfolder under a public folder, the user shall be allowed to be the owner of that folder

thanksBut the parent folder has custom rights for the user XYZ he can create but not delete sub folderbut since he becomes the owner of the public folder he has the rights to remove the parent folder owner from the permission group I have set in group policy that the user cannot change permissions for outlook folder, I got the rights part solved but user creator of subfolder can still delete the folder and the folder content.I feel this is the problem with exchange 2007 as the rights of the parent folder do not propogate properly For now I am only intrested in deny user to delete subfolder he has become the owner of.thanks in advance

I agree completely with you, I would to let my users to organize subfolder of a specific folder in my exchange and load it up some email, but I don't want someone that create a folder-trap before others becomes the owner with ability to erase all the content. Have you found any solution to this problem ? Thanks in advice for any suggestione.

Hi, You can script something for your problem. Lets suppose your user Administrator is owner of a public folder '\Marketing". Now you can write a powershell script to enumerate all PFs and change the owner to the owner of root public folder "\Marketing". This is really easy using Add-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997986.aspx command. Regards,Laeeq Qazi|Team Lead(Exchange + Sharepoint + BES + DynamicsCRM) www.HostingController.com