Example 2 Get-PublicFolder -Identity \NON_IPM_SUBTREE -Recurse | Format-List Name This example uses the Get-PublicFolder command without parameters to return the root public folder object (IPM_SUBTREE). To find the permissions required to run any cmdlet or parameter in your organization, see Find the permissions required to run any Exchange cmdlet. Although this topic lists all parameters for the cmdlet, you may not have access to some parameters if they're not included in the permissions assigned to you. You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. Use the Get-PublicFolder cmdlet to retrieve the attributes of a public folder or a set of public folders.įor information about the parameter sets in the Syntax section below, see Exchange cmdlet syntax. Some parameters and settings may be exclusive to one environment or the other. To open the filter options, click on the Filter button.This cmdlet is available in on-premises Exchange and in the cloud-based service. Then you would import them year by year in your new Exchange Server or Office 365. So if you are exporting a Public Folder over the limit, you will have a huge problem in your hands which would cause some serious headaches and you would end up exporting for example by year using the filter options to limit the size of the PST file. So here the dilemma is that if you have for example a Public Folder which is over 50GB you would need a way to split this and it will be hassle if you have a Public Folder of 100GB or more as you cannot know how much each folder will be as in the database the folder could be 10GB but when you export to PST it will be more. In Outlook 2013, 2016 and even on the new Office 2019 the size limit of a PST is 50GB. Another thing on exporting them all at once, you might end up with a gigantic PST file which would be prone to corruption and issues. Depending on the size of your Public Folders I would re-consider exporting them one by one so that you don’t end up restarting the process of the export from scratch if Outlook would crash and since there is no progress information you would end up not knowing what was exported or not. A bit of warning on exporting all the mailboxes at once. If you want to export all public folders, click on the Public Folders root. To export a Public Folder there are two ways and below we will be exploring both. Using the PowerShell cmdlet New-Mailbo圎xportRequest we can export any mailbox to PST but unfortunately in Exchange 20, there is still no export command for Public Folders. Exchange Server Public Folders are being backed up on a daily basis to tape, drives or cloud, and to restore them it’s quite easy as you need to restore the EDB file but to export from an EDB with native tools is not possible due to the fact that an EDB can only be opened with an Exchange Server. Microsoft are really pushing into Teams for collaborate and it being a hub for users to work together.įor Exchange Admins comes the nightmare when companies need to migrate to Office 365 and no one blames them as exporting and migrating Public Folders is not easy, especially if they have to migrated all the data to Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Groups. If you are looking to move to Office 365 you should strongly look into Office 365 Groups with Microsoft Teams, Planner, shared calendar, emails and notes. Public Folders have been with Exchange Server for a long time and now these are being faced out in Office 365 by use of Office 365 Group and Microsoft Teams. These folders can be easily be viewed and modified through Outlook or Web access. Public Folders can feature thing like Calendar, journal, emails, notes and templates. One can mail-enable a Public Folder and assign an email address to so that it can form part of a distribution group. Public Folders in Exchange are a great way to share information between a team of users making it easier for users to share data.