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I get the impression MS seems to think shared mailboxes and sharepoint fill the gap without considering the shortcommings of one and the cost and complexity of the other.

Free lightweight collaberation is not something people want to start paying for :-)

Shared Contacts....we then sync the shared contacts to users mailboxes using a third party tool.

Big AMEN to the comment above! I hope MS listens to its customers and doesn’t do what they’ve wanted to do since 2007, which is not invest anymore into PF and get rid of it all together if they can. It’s not the right move, PFs bring value to exchange!

So, is this survey a tell us what we can do to make removing support for public folders easier?

I think Microsoft may be able to push the shared mailbox line a little bit better if they fitted more seamlessly in to outlook.

Agree with justin.g11.  SharePoint is too slow and complex (not to mention does not offer the ability to simply drag. drop, and have delivered to it emails from mailboxes or distribution groups.  Whilst the public folder library I inherited is a monster there are few things I can do to reduce its size.  Allowing the creation of multiple, smaller databases to create the whole hierarchy would be nice.  If I can persuade my masters to allow age limits then I will be happy.  At least then it will be controlled.

If you decide to remove public folders entirely, a tool(script?) to convert our mail-enabled public folders to shared  mailboxes (including moving permissions over to the shared mailbox) would be highly neccessary.

I don't use public folders for anything, except I am forced to due to a bug in Outlook that prevents resource booking when public folders are dismounted. :-(

The final survey question, "If you would like to share any other feedback related to public folders, please enter it here." has a max character limit but it is not clear  what the limit is. I attempted to provide detailed feedback but had to keep chopping sentences out until the form validation didn't gripe about it being too long.

We receive confirmation emails from vendords outside of SAS regarding orders and other correspondence.  If there is a way for those emails to go directly into a folder in Sharepoint we could certainly stop using our public folders.

I wanted to thank MANY of you that have already filled out the survey, please keep it coming! We are also looking at your comments here and - while we are not able to share many details right now, I did want to tell you that we indeed are listening and do understand that many of rely on public folders in your businesses.

Thank you again!