Public Folder Security

[Michaelcree]

Hello All
Can anybody help I am running a Windows 2003 server with Exchange 2003 and have migrated from Exchange 5.5 however I am stuck on the question of permissions for Public folders after they have moved from the 5.5 server. Now (As microsft have said) the old distribution lists cannot be used for assigning permissions to public folders and that you should use the Windows Security groups. The question is HOW????
So far I cannot see anyway to do this.
(For reference I am still for a short while running in mixed mode)

 

[snootalope]

You've got your distribution groups in your AD right? Just assign them accordingly to the security of each public folder. Since your an admin, just do it from your Outlook client or something..

If you don't have distribution groups in ur AD, of couse you'll have to create em, but you already knew that.. 8-P

 

[Michaelcree]

The distribution groups are in AD but this does'nt work Microsoft have already said that distribution groups cannot be used to assign security to public folders

 

[Zelandakh]

no, distribution groups don't have security principles. You need security groups. To make life simple, you could use mail enabled security groups with the same names as the distribution groups although it isn't good for multiple domain setups due to security considerations.

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[Michaelcree]

Thanks this worked great I added the email attributes to the security groups added them into the client permissions for the public folder then hid the mail enabled security group from the address list.

Many Thanks