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
- Open ADSI-Edit and got to configuration
- Navigate to this path:
- CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
- CN=Services
- CN=Microsoft Exchange
- CN=EXCHANGE_ORG
- CN=Administrative Groups
- CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)
- CN=Databases
- CN=PUBLIC_FOLDER_DATABASE
- Now you can delete the PF-Database you want to get rid off.
Exchange 2007
- Open ADSI-Edit and got to configuration
- Navigate to this path:
- CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
- CN=Services
- CN=Microsoft Exchange
- CN=EXCHANGE_ORG
- CN=Administrative Groups
- CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)
- CN=Servers
- CN=SERVERNAME
- CN=InformationStore
- CN=STORAGE_GROUP
- CN=PUBLIC_FOLDER_DATABASE
- Now you can delete the PF-Database you want to get rid off.
Exchange 2003
- Open ADSI-Edit and got to configuration
- Navigate to this path:
- CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
- CN=Services
- CN=Microsoft Exchange
- CN=EXCHANGE_ORG
- CN=Administrative Groups
- CN=First administrative Group
- CN=Servers
- CN=SERVERNAME
- CN=InformationStore
- CN=STORAGE_GROUP
- CN=PUBLIC_FOLDER_DATABASE