Up to now, Administrators did not have control over which users would see public folders in their Outlook clients. If public folders were created within the organization or if an Exchange Online orga...
Updated Oct 22, 2020
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Announcing Support for Controlled Connections to Public Folders in Outlook
Would ti make more sense to make the PublicFolderClientAccess as $true by default. That way when PublicFolderShowClientControl is set to $true, then still all users can access the public folders and customers can set only PublicFolderClientAccess to $false for only those users they want to disable this for? The other way around we have to write scripts to set this to $true for all users, imagine customer with large number of mailboxes. Also we always have to set this to true for users who are moved to cloud, adding more tasks.
As this feature is build keeping in mind to hide the public folders for some users so the default value is false. Also, there are organizations with both types like some of which prefer the false as default value as they want to hide Public folders for most users (cases of M&A) and on another side, there are organizations which like true as default value as they want to provide access to PF's for most users. So right now we went with the feature theme. but later on, if we would find more tenants are liking the true as default value then we could change the default value of PublicFolderClientAccess to true.