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PFDAVAdmin update is now released

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The_Exchange_Team
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Apr 09, 2010

 

An updated version of the PFDAVAdmin tool has been released to the web. You can get it from the download center at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=635BE792-D8AD-49E3-ADA4-E2422C0AB424.

This update contains various bug fixes that have been made over the last three years (the prior version on the Download Center was from April of 2007). It also has some changes that make it work better against Exchange 2007. For instance, the old versions of PFDAVAdmin expected certain directory objects to be present for all Exchange servers. In Exchange 2007, some of those objects are only present with a CAS role. This resulted in a situation where PFDAVAdmin would only connect to Exchange 2007 mailbox servers that also had the CAS role. That problem is fixed in this version of PFDAVAdmin, which has no problem connecting to Exchange 2007 with only the mailbox role installed.

The dependency on .NET Framework 1.1 remains, which means you should run PFDAVAdmin from a workstation with Framework 1.1 installed - you should not install this old version of the framework on your Exchange servers, because it makes IIS unhappy.

PFDAVAdmin still cannot connect to Exchange 2010 servers, because WebDAV is gone from 2010. If you need similar functionality for Exchange 2010, use ExFolders instead.

- Bill Long 

Updated Apr 22, 2020
Version 2.0

28 Comments

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    It should not be so uncommon that us, as Exchange administrators does not have permissions to the public folders made regular users. So this tool, as it behaves as normal client tool it cannot give any benefits to us? Or does it behaves in some other way?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Peter,

    Yes - this is all expected; you are looking at the newer version. While the version within the tool did not change (and there were no changes to the tool UI) - if you pull up the props of the pfdavadmin.exe, on the Details tab you can see that the tool version has been incremented to newer version.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Hi I dowloaded PFDAVAdmin from the link provided. Even though the file version shows up with a higher value than the previous version (6.5.8164.0 compared to 6.5.7911.0) it still shows the same version number within the program.
    If you go to help about it shows PFDAVAdmin version 2.8.
    So I am wondering if MS just forgot to update this or if this is really a new version since the UI and Menus have not changed at all.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Hi Hotfix,

    With Exchange 2007 you will have to use Pfdavadmin.

    If you have exchaneg 2010 then you can use Exfolders for exchange 2007 and exchange 2010 as well.

    Regards
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    If we have a pure Exchange 2007 enviornment, which tool should we be using primarily? This update PFDAVAdmin or ExFolders?
    I understand we can use either, but I am looking for some direction as to which tool is the preferred tool.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Hi Bill,

    Thanks for the response. I am indeed trying to navigate into a user mailbox. If i authenticate as myself in PFDAVAdmin and attempt to navigate into my own account I still receive the 401 error, I am in the Exchange Organization Administrators group. Do I need to grant permissions to all mailboxes by using a command such as the one below? :

    Get-Mailboxdatabase | Add-AdPermission -User "Username" -AccessRights GenericAll

    Thanks
    Andrew
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Hi Andrew,

    As you would expect, the 401 Unauthorized is a permissions error. Are you trying to navigate into a user mailbox? If so, you must have full access to that mailbox in order to navigate into it with PFDAVAdmin.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Hi,
    I'm hoping you can help, I can't connect to our Exchange 2007 Mailbox SCC cluster using PFDAVAdmin. When I try to connect i receive a 401 unauthorized error from the server. I'm sorry if this isn’t the correct area to post such a question, if this is the case could you please point me in the right direction?
    Thanks in advance.
    Andrew