Not able to connect to public folder

HI ZitCom,
 
Please use the following command to Give/Update permissions on public Folder
Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "\Marketing\West Coast" -AccessRights "RightsThat NeedtoBeGiven" -User Kim
 or follow this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124743.aspx
More Info:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998834.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997966.aspx 
 
Hilal

Hi,

I tried running the following commands:
Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "\internet newsgroups" -accessrights owner -user testuser
Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity \NON_IPM_SUBTREE -accessrights owner -user testuser

both completed successfully, but the issue is still the same, Outlook tried to connect to public folders, but times out after a while.

In Outlook, when i try to connect to the public folder, i get thie following error:

The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft Exchange Server computer is down for maintenance. (/o=zitcom/ou=exchange administrative group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=configuration/cn=server/cn=mail02

Is this your new Mail server "mail02". It looks like the Old public Folder replica instance was not cleaned up properly.
 
Hilal

Yes mail02 is the new server.

That could be, i just checked the folder hiarchy was there, then i removed the previous mail server.
Any idea on how to fix this?
As mentioned earlier, we dont have much use for public folders, i just installed them because i had some trouble uninstalling the old server otherwise.
Perhaps i should just try and remove the public folders, users should not be affected by this, since they are not connected to the folder?

Check the client settings on the properties of your mailbox database. See what public folder database it refers to.

That refers to the correct public folder database on mail02.

I just noticed that i am able to browse public folderse from OWA. just created a folder and a message with one user, and read it with another.

Hi,
"I just noticed that i am able to browse public folderse from OWA. just created a folder and a message with one user, and read it with another. "
Are you able to browse any old folders ? It really looks like the CAS settings are not proper.
Hilal

the only old folder there is, is the default "internet newsgroup" folder, i am able to post message there.

I noticed one thing, not sure of it matters or not.

When checking public folder management from the toolbox, the system folders are located in \NON_IPM_SUBTREE.
When running get-publicfolder |fl - i get the following output, please note the name.

RunspaceId                     : 0fa7126a-d5e5-40ae-855f-39daade63749
AgeLimit                       :
EntryId                        : 000000001A447390AA6611CD9BC800AA002FC45A030046EABFCD0F5075448E7645CC88AB05040000000000
                                 010000
HasSubFolders                  : True
HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled  : False
IssueWarningQuota              :
LocalReplicaAgeLimit           :
MailEnabled                    : False
MaxItemSize                    :
Name                           : IPM_SUBTREE
ParentPath                     :
PerUserReadStateEnabled        : True
ProhibitPostQuota              :
Replicas                       : {}
ReplicationSchedule            : {}
RetainDeletedItemsFor          :
UseDatabaseAgeDefaults         : True
UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults       : True
UseDatabaseReplicationSchedule : False
UseDatabaseRetentionDefaults   : True
FolderType                     :
HasRules                       : False
HasModerator                   : False
Identity                       : \
MapiIdentity                   : \
OriginatingServer              : mail02.domain.local
IsValid                        : True

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