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Inherit rights in Public Folders?

I am wondering if there is a way in Exchange 2003 (current sp, native mode) to propagate rights or inherit rights in a set of folders and sub folders in the Public Folders?

I have a bunch of public folders and some users have gone and created a lot of subfolders and they sometimes need one person to have access to the entire folder structure. its annoying to have to open every single folder and grant rights to that one person in every single location. like windows, i would like to be albe to set the permissions at the top level and have all the subs inherit. But this doesnt seem possible.

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Azriphale

You can propagate access rights pretty easily. It's a touch brutal though - it overwrites any existing permissions. You may want to think about using groups to assign permissions then just add the users to the groups. Anyway to propagate settings, simply...

1. Open Exchange System Manager
2. Browse to the public folders (under admin groups/<your admin group>/folders)
3. Right click the folder whose access rights you want to propagate
4. Select 'All tasks' then 'Propagate Settings...'
5. Select 'Folder Rights' and ok.
6. Job done.

abhaigh

use PFDAVADMIN

with that you can to a bulk operation to add or remove whatever rights you want to the entire PF hierarchy without walloping the existing permissions

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abhaigh

PFDAVAdmin won't overwrite any existing permissions other than for hte account you are configuring them for though

Sembee

Nor will ESM. If you run the wizard you can choose to add permissions, not replace. Sounds like you are thinking of ESM under Exchange 2003 prior to SP2.

Simon.