Problem removing a broken public folder in Exchange 2007 Sp1
lets say i have a shared calendar in a Outlook Public Folder, its not mine but as an administrator I should have access to it. Well, it seems I don't and I can't add the permission, remove the calendar or make any changes. Idealy it needs to be removed because it is no longer needed and the person that published it is no longer employed with us so their account has been deleted. This leads me to belive it has been orpaned, but I'm lost at how to remedy this. PFDAVAdmin doesn't seem to work in 2007 because the exadmin virtual directory no longer exists, i can't seem to find any way to do it in ASDI Edit either. The newly added public folder management console sounds cool but is even more useless than I expected at managing permissions at all, when trying to remove the broken calendar with it I get. Code Snippet --------------------------------------------------------Microsoft Exchange Error--------------------------------------------------------Action 'Update Content' could not be performed on object 'example'. exampleFailedError:Cannot start content replication against public folder '\folders\example' on public folder database 'exchange2k7\Second Storage Group\Public Folder Database'. MapiExceptionNoReplicaAvailable: StartContentReplication failed. (hr=0x80004005, ec=1129)Diagnostic context: Lid: 1494 ---- Remote Context Beg ---- Lid: 31229 Error: 0x0 Lid: 9206 StoreEc: 0xFFFFF9BF Lid: 19865 StoreEc: 0x469 Lid: 27225 StoreEc: 0x469 Lid: 1750 ---- Remote Context End ---- Lid: 26322 StoreEc: 0x469 --------------------------------------------------------OK-------------------------------------------------------- This is all ofcourse after trying to add, modify and or remove anything about this share using the management console. First i tried Code Snippet Add-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission -Identity "\folders\example" -user "myself" -AccessRights AllExtendedRights Which tells me the following Code SnippetThere is no existing PublicFolder that matches the following Identity: '\folders\example'. Please make sure that you specified the correct PublicFolder Identity and that you have the necessary permissions to view PublicFolder. Next, Code SnippetAdd-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "\folders\example" -user "myself" -AccessRights "owner" No suprise there, same error. Code SnippetDisable-MailPublicFolder -Identity "\folders\example" Yep, still nothing. Code SnippetRemove-PublicFolder -Identity "\folders\example" -Recurse Same story, I use -Recurse because there are sub-calendars under this broken one that can't be removed, modified or copied either. So in summary, they show up to everyone in the network but I can't manage or remove them, any thoughts? I know the Identity is correct, I also know that I have all available permissions that exchange and active directory offer.
September 5th, 2008 12:43am

Dear customer: To proper assist you to troubleshoot the issue, please help to collect the following information: 1. Lets say I have a shared calendar in a Outlook Public Folder, what does it means? Please send the screenshot of it to v-rocwan@microsoft.com. 2. On the Exchange Server 2007, open EMC, navigate to toolbox, open public folder management console, expand default public folders, send the screenshot of it to v-rocwan@microsoft.com for analyze, 3. Open EMS, run the following command and post the result into the forum: Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Format-List Name Get-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission -Identity "\My Public Folder" -User Chris -Server "My Server" | Format-List Note: replace \My Public Folder with the actual public folder name, replace Chris with your alias, replace My Server with your Exchange server name. 4. Did you enable mail feature for the public folder that you want to delete. Note: when you send e-mail to me, please add the subject of the post. Thanks for your cooperation. If anything is unclear, please feel free to let me know. Rock Wang - MSFT
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September 5th, 2008 11:19am

I guess the question didn't seem unclear to me- I have the same problem, an orphan public folder (calendar)that was created by a user that no longer exists, except we don't want to get rid of it, we want to change the permissions on it, but no one, including administrator, can get to it (other than see that it is there). I assume from the date on the post that the issue has been resolved, can you post the answer here so others can see?
October 23rd, 2008 5:43pm

This worked for me: Download PFDAVAdmin: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=635be792-d8ad-49e3-ada4-e2422c0ab424&displaylang=en Installed it on my WinXP desktop, connected to the Exchange 2007 server, changed permissions on folder.
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October 23rd, 2008 7:08pm

Hi (1) As rock's said, "lets say i have a shared calendar in a Outlook Public Folder"; could you explaint what is it meanning? (2) per your decription, i guess whether you write wrong for "public folder" path? pls run " get-publicfolder -identity "\" " on PS, then post it to forum? or cut screenshot as the following path: 1.open "public folder management console" in EMC 2.extend "public folder" 3.extend "default public folder" if there is anything unclear, pls let me know,thanks; -Jack
October 24th, 2008 9:59am

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