Your PC Team

We recently had to create a Public Folder in Exchange 2007 from a old PST file. Inside the newly created Public Folder was over 50 subdirectories, and the client needed to change some of the subdirectory names.

When they right-clicked, they found the Rename and a few other options greyed-out. Looks like a permissions problems. And, within Exchange 2007 not Outlook is there anyway to change this.

Enter the Microsoft PFADavAdmin Tool. This will propogate the permissions of the parent directory to all subdirectories, remove permissions, or add new ones.

To propogate permissions:

1. Download the tool from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=635be792-d8ad-49e3-ada4-e2422c0ab424&displaylang=en
2. Launch the tool
3. Right click on your top level public folder.
4. Choose "Propagate ACEs". Select the ACEs that you wish to propagate to all subfolders and choose to "Add/Replace".
5. Click ok to change permissions.

If you would like to learn more about the PFADavAdmin tool, go to http://www.msexchange.org/articles/PFDavAdmin-tool-Part1.html