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The sudden removal of public folder access in outlook on the web
Last week access to public folders was removed from outlook on the web with no announcement, does anyone know why? and why was the message centre not used to communicate this change ? Now you ge...
Have been using Public Folders since we moved to Outlook and Exchange Server years ago to implement a Company Wide Address book. When we moved to M365 and Exchange online it still functioned perfectly. Staff could use either the desktop app or the browser and access our company wide address book that only a number of staff have permission to maintain. Why fix or change what is not broken! I have not found an alternative implementation that works with M365 and the desktop app. Microsoft should provide adequate step by step documentation for an alternative method of providing the same functionality.
According to my sources, we should get a toggle switch by the 28th of April to switch it back to the old behaviour.
- I am still having issues with this. Not available in the Brower on in the desktop app. Has anyone an update?
I chased my microsoft contact on this again yesterday as something was due around April 28th, their response was:
"We were on track to the rollout but we were hit by a road block. We are actively trying to resolve the issue. I will get back to you on the updated timeline by tomorrow/day after."
- I am told this is now scheduled for the end of this month.
- I was getting a bit worried, with the new 365 Outlook being available on trial.
