What single Microsoft released Exchange tool is a swiss-army knife in functionality when dealing with permissions on Public Folders for Exchange 2000, 2003, and even 2007?
ANSWER: PFDavAdmin Tool (Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning Administration Tool) GUI tool used for performing permission changes (inheritance, bulk export/import, etc) on public folders not available in the ESM/EMC or Outlook. Also can be used to find item counts on a per folder in users mailboxes. Explained more at http://www.msexchange.org/articles/PFDavAdmin-tool-Part1.html Download at http://download.microsoft.com & search for “PFDAVAdmin.EXE” (released 4/4/07)
How To Get PFDavAdmin working with Exchange 2007 (as per MVP Jim McBee) http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com/2008/01/pfdavadmin-exchange-2007-and-v11-net.html Microsoft recommends using the PFDAVADMIN utility from a workstation, not from the console of the Exchange server, though. If you get this message, do NOT install the v1.1 Framework on an existing Exchange 2007 server. You run the risk of resetting some of the v2.0 Framework settings and, thus, breaking Exchange Server 2007! If you want to run PFDAVADMIN from the console of an Exchange 2007 server, you need to install the v1.1 .NET Framework prior to building Exchange. Thus, the “workstation” option is much more desirable.