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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Exchange 2013 Adding Public Folders in OWA

Microsoft has tried to do away with Public Folders (or at least threatened to) numerous times and they keep coming back in new versions of Exchange. The problem with 2013 is that they are not viewable in OWA by default like they were in Exchange 2010.
Now, I do agree Public Folders should go away, but many organizations use them and some (like my current org) use them heavily. That being said, MS shouldn't make it harder to use them, instead of just ditching them...when I say they made it harder, you can only add one Public Folder at a time, and not any top-level ones either.

How To Add Public Folders to OWA

Right-click on Favorites in the left pane, click Add Public Folder.


OWA Add Public Folder


In the dialog box, select the folder you want to add to Favorites and click the Add button.

**Note** You cannot select the "SUBTREE" and if you select a top level folder, it will only show items in that folder, not the child folders.

So, you have to manually go through and add each and every Public Folder you need...if users need a bunch of folders, they have some busy-work to do!

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