asked on Public folder for 365 and exchange on premise hybrid mode
We do have exchange 365 and exchange on premise configured to work on in hybrid mode. Initially we migrated public folder from exchange on prem to exchange online.
So Exchange on Prem remember info for all existing Public folders at time prior to migration.
Our MX record points to an SMTP email filter on Prem. SMTP filter delivers SMTP traffic to Exchange on Prem and 365 emails are properly forwarded.
Now I would like to create new mail enabled public folder say newpfmailto:newpublicfolder@mydomain.com.
Since I create new folder on 365 and there is no sync on public folders to on prem
exchange on prem don't know that mailto:newpublicfolder@mydomain.com is a valid email address on 365 and it will reject the email.
I do prefer public folder for this case vs shared mailbox cause Mail enabled public folder is much easier to use for my purposes :.
- I can configure security access for each user ( owner, reviewer , etc..) while with shared mailbox is all or nothing (even though in theory you can assign different right to subfolders via PowerShell).
- Shared mailbox is caching in in the outlook and having too many shared mailbox balloons cached outlook profile.
My question is ( please don't through any random answers)
how to configure new public folder so that email from outside of my domain hits SMTP gateway then Exchange On prem and gets forwarded to 365 newpf@mydomain.com t PF?
I do want to use email address to be mailto:newpf@mydomain.com i don't want to use newpf@mydomain.onmicrosoft.com
and I'd like to avoid creating another shared or user mailbox with a forward rule to a public folder.
however I am getting this error when i
opened powershell as an admin
Connect-exchangeonline
Sync-MailPublicFoldersCloudToOnprem.ps1 -Credential (Get-Credential)
and i am getting error below
thank you
cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Credential
Sync-MailPublicFoldersCloudToOnprem.ps1 : The term 'Sync-MailPublicFoldersCloudToOnprem.ps1' is not recognized as the
name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was
included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Sync-MailPublicFoldersCloudToOnprem.ps1 -Credential (Get-Credential)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Sync-MailPublicFoldersCloudToOnprem.ps1:String) [], CommandNotFoundExce
ption
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
thank you very much
i ran your script few time, however, exchange on premise still doesn't see new public folder email address ?
any ideas?
1. are PFs mail enabled in cloud?
2. are ADconnect configured for Exchange Hybrid?
3. looking at the scripts - does it pro
I’m out hiking today - so offline until tomorrow late morning, sorry for any late responses
1. yes PF folder in question is mail enabled and I can send emails from other 365 mailbox but not from on premise
2. ADconnect is configured for a hybrid mode and sync the delta changes.
i can create shared mailbox on prem and migrate it to the cloud and i can send emails not problem from outside and from on prem and on 365
3. scrip it processing ?
4. public folder set to receive emails from anonymous and from outside
no rush to answer enjoy a nice weather outside.
thank you
Back at the keyboard now. Are there any logs processsed from the script? It would create a summary CSV file I see - anything in this file?
sorry i was OOF for a couple of days
i temporary created shared mailbox on exchange on prem and port shared mailbox to the cloud and configure forward to new public folder
however I do like to have new public folder email address sync to on premise.
the only log from running your script is
“CompletedStatsCount = Total sync mail mail public folders created: {0}, updated: {1} and deleted: {2}.”
thank you for staying on it.
using this command:
Sync-MailPublicFoldersCloudToOnprem.ps1 -Credential (Get-Credential)
Credentials = 365 user/pass
as the web page states:
Note
We recommend that you run this script daily to synchronize your mail-enabled public folders.