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how to set full permissions for public folder in exchange 2010?

new to exchange 2010, so please bear with me.

I exported all my public folders out of 2003 to a pst and am trying to put them into 2010, but cant since i dont have permissions. It was easy to change this in 2003, but in 2010 its all done through powershell.

I seem to be stuck and cant find exactly what i need to enter to give myself and another user full control of public folders so we can administor it in outlook.

please help.

Thanks

Alan Hardisty

You can add permissions to Exchange 2010 Public Folders in the Exchange Management Console by doing the following:
Add-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission -User UserName -Identity \PublicFolderName -AccessRights Owner
Change the items in Italic to reflect your Environment.
For reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997986.aspx

phrea84

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can i do this on the root level of public folders or do i have to do this for every item?

phrea84

ASKER

getting this error
C:\Windows\system32>Add-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission -User jimmy -Identity \AVH -AccessRights Owner
Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'AccessRights'. Cannot convert value "Owner" to type "Microsoft.Exc
hange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Management.MapiTasks.PublicFolderAdministrativePermission]". Error:
"Failed to convert Owner from System.String to Microsoft.Exchange.Management.MapiTasks.PublicFolderAdministrativePermi
ssion."
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Add-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission], ParameterBindin...mationExc
eption
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,Add-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission [PS] C:\Windows\system32>

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phrea84

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thanks--that worked. can i run it against the root of Public folders or do i have to run it for each folder?

Alan Hardisty

If you have permissions to the root of the Public Folder Tree, then Yes you can, otherwise it will fail.
I guess it depends on how many Folders you have to set the permissions for, but by default, you do not have permissions to the Root.

phrea84

ASKER

i guess what im asking is--do i have to do this for each person per folder or can it replicate all the way down if i assign a group?

Alan Hardisty

To be honest - I am not entirely sure. You could do it with a Group permission and that would make life easier - then you can add / remove people from the group, but I don't have a definitive answer. Sorry.

phrea84

ASKER

alright--guess for now ill be doing it per folder.

thanks

phrea84

ASKER

thanks a bunch--saved me a lot of time and frustration!

matcharles

Can I use the EMC or any 3rd party app to set permissions on a public folder in Exchange 2010? If I have to set ACL's on every public folder for 100 users, this could be a pain. I realize I could set the permission on a group but would be a lot easier to selectively apply granular permissions to each user object in a gui. any suggestions??