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Public folders have disappeared in NEW outlook for Mac
Just switched to Microsoft Outlook for Mac version 16.42. Public folders have disappeared and the option is greyed out under tools. if I switch back to the old outlook, the public folders are there a...
This is fun. "New" outlook - No Public Folders. "Old" outlook - No Search Results. Now I have to switch back and forth between outlook versions depending on whether I want to be able to search, or access public folders. Really looking forward to a microsoft self-driving car. My use of capital letters is intended. Fix your broken garbage and you'll get your Capital letters back.
I've been using new on my mac and going to the browser when I need to do something I can't.
Adding to what mskars said, it's a bad workaround for users who heavily rely on a grown hierarchy of public folders. it's just impossible to configure access to public folders in a user friendly way in the web interface, because *all* the subfolders have to be favorited by hand via outlook, one by one, to make them visible on the web interface.
not to mention that microsoft removed the administration of permissions on public folders via the GUI. I really want to know what they were thinking here...- Hi chrismeiss,
I'm not convinced the've removed permissioning public folders via the GUI. You can still set the permission in the Exchange admin center as far as I know. Agreed, the "do this on all subfolders" doesn't work (well it didn't when I tried it a while back, they've removed the check box and replaced it with the note "Use https://aka.ms/PFPermissionScript in case you want to apply permission to subfolders." now), but you can set the permissions folder by folder.- As I said, they removed a user friendly way to configure access for PF via the GUI. what they did, is just a way to say: "we removed the GUI-option, but you still can use that error prone script, putting all the responsibility to you, if something goes wrong! oh, and you can change permissions for 100 subfolders via GUI, one by one, this will be so much fun!"
but what am I complaining, it's the microsoft way, like it always was.
- Definitely a workaround for a typical user. Most days however, I'm alternately logged into multiple client tenants using different accounts It gets really time consuming logging out, and clearing history, etc. Even with 3 different browsers plus their private modes, its a pita. Just plain crazy the workarounds we're forced to implement for an "upgrade" nobody asked for.
