Public Folder

[Lovekesh Arora ( Office 365)]

We are in hybrid environment. We have around 2300 PF (1000 non mail enabled) on exchange on-premise 2010 and we are planning to sync the PF to office 365. I know we can use the Microsoft script to sync the mail enabled public folder to cloud. But what about the non mail enabled PF. Any suggestions how can we sync all PF at once.

Advice will be appreciated!

[#2]

Hello,

What exactly would you like to sync?

For a start, from the PF data perspective, the PFs can reside (be hosted) either on-premises or in Office 365 (Exchange Online). I.e. unlike mailboxes, where you can host some of them on-prem and some in the cloud. You can enable remote PFs so that cloud mailboxes can connect to on-prem PFs, but that's a different story, they are still hosted either on-prem or online.

Now, in regards to your sync, the whole point of it is to have representations in Office 365 (EXO) of your on-prem mail enabled PFs, so that cloud mailboxes (users with mailboxes in O365) can email the on-prem MEPFs. That's why you run that script. What would you like to sync to O365, what is the info on the non mail-enabled on-prem PFs that you'd want to see in O365?

Kind regards,

Florin

[#3]

Just to add some clarifying question to what Florin said, do you want to synchronize the content of the PFs (as in, migrate them to ExO)? Or keep them on-premises, but have them "recognized" by ExO and Office 365 users?

[#4]

Thank you, Florin and Vasil for your valuable response.

Yes, Eventually I want to migrate the PF from on-premises to EXO but as if now we are in process of migration, so now we want to keep the PF on Exchange On-prem however we want to sync their identity to office 365 so that EXO user and On-Prem user both can access the PF.

And I Know we can configure legacy on-premises public folders for a hybrid deployment but again this will only sync mail-enabled Public folder and we have several PF which is not mail-enabled now but it was earlier.

And we want to sync all PF mail-enabled and Non-enabled.

[#5]

Here are few scripts to synchronize Public Folders between on-premise and Office 365. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38408

[#6]

Syncing the (ME)PFs is just one of the steps required to enable ExO users to access them, follow the steps in the "hybrid" documentation here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249373(v=exchg.160).aspx

Or the relevant article for modern PFs.

[#7]

Here is another link that can provide some guidance for migrating public folders.

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn874017(v=exchg.150).aspx