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Migrate Public folders from Office 365 to on-premises Exchange
- Feb 02, 2018
Hi Dan - I've confirmed with the Exchange folks that this is simply an snafu in the documentation. It will be updated soon.
Doing a bit more digging into this issue, I found this technet article on hybrid deployments. To quote:
Public folders are supported in Office 365, and on-premises public folders can be migrated to Office 365. Additionally, public folders in Office 365 can be moved to the on-premises Exchange 2016 organization. Both on-premises and Office 365 users can access public folders located in either organization using Outlook on the web, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013, or Outlook 2010 SP2 or newer. Existing on-premises public folder configuration and access for on-premises mailboxes doesn’t change when you configure a hybrid deployment.
Unfortunately I can't find anything about how to move the public folders in Office 365 to the on-premises Exchange 2016 organisation. I assume I use the same process used when moving public folder mailboxes to different mailbox databases, but in this case the different mailbox database is located on premises, but I'd like some confirmation if anyone has done this.
- VasilMichevFeb 01, 2018MVP
Hm, well I've never heard about this process, and I'm not able to find any references to it outside of said article. Let me poke the Exchange folks on this...
- VasilMichevFeb 02, 2018MVP
Hi Dan - I've confirmed with the Exchange folks that this is simply an snafu in the documentation. It will be updated soon.
- Dan_SnapeFeb 02, 2018Bronze Contributor
Thanks Vasil. I really appreciate you taking the time to chase this up