

Public folder data can be difficult to restore Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is much better equipped for collaboration tasks and for document sharing than public folders have ever been.ĥ. Microsoft also says public folders are not designed for document sharing and collaboration, yet that is exactly what many organizations use them for. Public folders are not designed for document sharing and collaboration

Turn off igetter archive#
If you use public folders to archive Exchange data, you would be better off using a journaling mailbox instead.Ĥ. According to Microsoft, public folders are not designed for archiving data. Public folders are not designed for archiving data By offloading your public folder data, you may be able to improve your Exchange server’s performance.ģ. Public folders can rob your Exchange Server of memory, disk, and CPU resources. Public folder stores can be resource intensive (full text indexing) Even so, public folders probably won’t be supported in the next version of Exchange.Ģ. Public folders are alive and well in Exchange 2010. Since before the release of Exchange 2007, Microsoft has been telling us that public folders will eventually be discontinued. The following is a list of possible reasons why you should get started now. I have read this article this morning from and I found it very interesting as I am also a Public Folder’s user.Īlthough many organizations make use of Exchange Server’s public folders feature, the time may be right to start phasing it out. Your new PST (Outlook Data File) will be over on the left, and you can create new folders and drag mail into them (or setup rules). That path is burned into my brain :)Ĭlose the Account Settings window, and you will be back to the main Outlook window.
Turn off igetter windows#
I know that because I used to have a job upgrading PC’s in a large enterprise to Windows XP, and I had to manually move over the PST files that people forgot to back up. I’m not sure what Outlook 2010 does on earlier versions of Windows, but Outlook 2007 and earlier defaulted to C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. By default in Windows 7, it goes into your My Documents folder into a folder called “Outlook Files”. In the window that pops up, click the second tab “Data Files”Ĭlick on the “Add…” icon, and then give your PST file a name (they call it “Outlook Data File, which makes much more sense to end users), choose where it goes, and then hit “OK”. In the top left of Outlook, click on “File”.Ĭlick on the Account Settings drop down, and then click “Account Settings…” It’s pretty much the same as in Outlook 2007. Here is the step-by-step guide to create a PST file in Outlook 2010. The Credit of the this post goes to: The Sean Blog
