How to remove PUBLIC FODER using ADSIEdit

Most of our clients are moving to Office 365. I found out that sometimes is really difficult to remove Public Folders.

This is easy way to solve it is use ADSI-Edit.

Exchange 2010

  1. Open ADSI-Edit and got to configuration
  2. Navigate to this path:
  3. CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
  4. CN=Services
  5. CN=Microsoft Exchange
  6. CN=EXCHANGE_ORG
  7. CN=Administrative Groups
  8. CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)
  9. CN=Databases
  10. CN=PUBLIC_FOLDER_DATABASE
  11. Now you can delete the PF-Database you want to get rid off.

Exchange 2007

  1. Open ADSI-Edit and got to configuration
  2. Navigate to this path:
  3. CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
  4. CN=Services
  5. CN=Microsoft Exchange
  6. CN=EXCHANGE_ORG
  7. CN=Administrative Groups
  8. CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)
  9. CN=Servers
  10. CN=SERVERNAME
  11. CN=InformationStore
  12. CN=STORAGE_GROUP
  13. CN=PUBLIC_FOLDER_DATABASE
  14. Now you can delete the PF-Database you want to get rid off.

Exchange 2003

  1. Open ADSI-Edit and got to configuration
  2. Navigate to this path:
  3. CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
  4. CN=Services
  5. CN=Microsoft Exchange
  6. CN=EXCHANGE_ORG
  7. CN=Administrative Groups
  8. CN=First administrative Group
  9. CN=Servers
  10. CN=SERVERNAME
  11. CN=InformationStore
  12. CN=STORAGE_GROUP
  13. CN=PUBLIC_FOLDER_DATABASE

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