Public Folders have undergone a radical change. Instead of replicating content via the SMTP protocol which Exchange has done for over 10 years now, Public Folders in Exchange Server 2013 are now replicated via DAG replication. How is that done? Are there Public Folder databases that are now highly available like mailboxes? No. Public folders are now mounted within a mailbox. That mailbox can then be replicated via DAG replication if you have a DAG cluster setup.
By default Exchange 2013 does not have any Public Folders installed:
How do we create a new Public Folder? First we need a Public Folder Mailbox.
Now that we have a mailbox, lets create the new Public Folder root.
Now we have out Public Folder root.
How do we create the folder structure to go with? Click on ‘Public Folders’ and this will allow you to create your subfolders.
Add your folders to your hierarchy.
Remember that you can still create subfolders up subfolders:
You can also manager folder permissions here as well:
That’s a quick introduction to the management of Public Folders from the new EAC.
TechNet Articles:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj552408.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj657481.aspx
Related PowerShell Commands
Add-PublicFolderClientPermission
Disable-MailPublicFolder
Enable-MailPublicFolder
Get-MailPublicFolder
Get-PublicFolder
Get-PublicFolderClientPermission
Get-PublicFolderDatabase
Get-PublicFolderItemStatistics
Get-PublicFolderMailboxDiagnostics
Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequest
Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequestStatistics
Get-PublicFolderMoveRequest
Get-PublicFolderMoveRequestStatistics
Get-PublicFolderStatistics
New-PublicFolder
New-PublicFolderMigrationRequest
New-PublicFolderMoveRequest
Remove-PublicFolder
Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission
Remove-PublicFolderMigrationRequest
Remove-PublicFolderMoveRequest
Resume-PublicFolderMigrationRequest
Resume-PublicFolderMoveRequest
Set-MailPublicFolder
Set-PublicFolder
Set-PublicFolderMigrationRequest
Set-PublicFolderMoveRequest
Suspend-PublicFolderMigrationRequest
Suspend-PublicFolderMoveRequest
Update-PublicFolderMailbox
