It was working, but had no name, so I could not see it in the web GUI. Since I was using Exchange Online, I was not able to use ADSI edit.Įssentially what happened is when I tried to delete the Public Folder Mailbox, it removed the name but kept the primary hierarchy buried in there. I was able to resolve this problem a different way. I know this is an old article, but it was the only remotely helpful thing I could find when trying to resolve this issue, so hopefully I can help someone else who may see this. Now create a PF mailbox New-Maibox PF1 –PublicFolder Removing all PublicFolder Mailboxes Get-Mailbox –PublicFolder | Remove-Mailbox -PublicFolderĮxpand Configuration –Services – Microsoft Exchange – “Your Exchange Org Name” (Properties)
Removing all Public Folders Get-PublicFolder –Recurse | Remove-PublicFolder If you are in the starting phase, I would recommend to Remove all the Public Folders and Public Folder mailboxes It means something went wrong.Īs Changing the Master hierarchy is bit Tricky and Tweaking the architecture. If you are seeing it, Its Good, Its availableīut if you are not seeing the ExchangeGuid on this list. Now you can see which Public Folder holds the Master hierarchy Now Run Get-Mailbox –PublicFolder | FL Name,ExchangeGuid Get the ExchangeGuid Value from RootPubicFolderMailbox Running the Below Command, It will show Which mailbox is the Master hierarchy Get-OrganizationConfig | Format-List RootPublicFolderMailbox
We need to find the Hidden Master hierarchy In Outlook on the web, if the user tries to add the public folder to Favorites, the 'adding public folder' window does not appear. failed attempt to connect to Microsoft Exchange. Even if you Create Public Folders it will create as Secondary hierarchy In Microsoft Outlook, if a user who has sufficient permissions to a public folder tries to expand the public folder tree, the following error message is displayed: Unable to expand folder. Where as a result of that master hierarchy goes disappeared. At times in Exchange 2013, If you remove the Public Folder Mailbox which holds the Master hierarchy abruptly, Or deleting Using Adsiedit.msc, It doesn’t get removed properly