XADM: How to Propagate Permissions to All Public Folder Subfolders in a Hierarchy

This article describes how to propagate public folder permissions.

You may want to change permissions for a hierarchy of public folders (a top-level folder and all sub-folders) on a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. For example, you may want to grant a new group of users the ability to modify and delete message items that are located in a group of public folders in a public folder tree.

Alternatively, if the folders are not in a hierarchy and you want to apply the same permissions to all of them, you can use the PFAdmin utility to set the Access Control Lists (ACLs) on the folders from a command prompt. Pfadmin.exe is included with the Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit, Second and Third Editions, and an Exchange 2000 administrator can use Pfadmin.exe to make changes to public folders.

The following steps propagate the modified permissions to every subfolder in a public folder tree.

To change the permissions for all of a hierarchy of public folders at the same time:

1. Start the Exchange System Manager program, and then locate the top-level folder of the public folder tree that needs a uniform change in permissions.
2. Right-click the top-level folder, and then click Properties.
3. To change the top-level folder permissions, click the Permissions tab, and then click Client Permissions.
4. After you modify the permissions, click OK.
5. Right-click the top-level folder, and then click All Tasks.
6. Click Propagate Settings.
7. In the Propagate Folder Settings dialog box, click Folder rights.

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