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Public Folders with W2K

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by jimapp

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Funny how we never really know when we are happy. For me Exchange 5.5 on W2k was heaven but for various reasons I opted to "upgrade".The ADC has made a fine mess of my public folders.They are no longer mailenabled resulting inlarge volume of NDRs.The bandaid fix was of course to create an acct with multiple alias's.When I try to enable or some other administrative task I often get Access denied or "the mailbox proxy for this folder...." and suggests waiting until replication has occured...wait a sec..I am not replicating! I only have one mail Server! Why can't life ever be like 5.5 again...I am tempted to commit a weekend to reinstalling 5.5...unless I am missing something...please!!

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by tony.colgrove

The ADC shouldnt cause this. The only interaction the ADC has with PF's is publishing the folders email address into AD. It can't delete it.
In Ex5.5 PF's were by default mailenabled.
In Ex2K PF's by default are not-mailenabled.
The error "mailbox proxy for this folder..." indicates it is not mail enabled.
As to way your PF's lost their email address is probably because of the upgrade. When public folders are no longer replicated to Ex5.5 servers, I have seen then "drop" their email address.
Since you have upgraded your single Ex5.5 server to Ex2K, have you switched to Native Mode and removed the ADC and SRS?
This may start to clear up some of your co-existance mode issues (I know you are not co-existing, but Exchange is still in Mixed Mode).
Plus give SP2 (win2k) and SP1 (Ex2k) a run, and see if some things clear up.

by jimapp

for some reason I cannot switch to native mode(greyed out) and I have already installed W2k SP2 and exch SP1. ..things seem to be getting worse..now I am not allowed to access properties of folders..asks for a username..who knows? I do appreciate your response.

by kevin

Public folders in Win2k are mail-enabled by default. I can build them and send mail to them immediately. Try removing then rebuild the folders to see if that helps.

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