Deleting Public Folders - any Definitive Solution?

[Dave Onex]

Hi Folks;

I run Exchange 2000 Enterprise and have run into several instances over the
years where public folders were created but could not be deleted. For the
life of me I've never been able to find a definitive solution to this issue
so if you _know_ how please consider replying and putting me out of my
misery :-)

Example:

Set up a newsfeed, pull all the folders and then later decide to delete the
feed. This leaves hundreds (if not thousands) of public folders. Accessing
them in Outlook 2000 with a mailbox that has administrative rights has
_never_ allowed me to delete them. Going into ESM and right clicking to
Properties and then Security and adding my mailbox account, with FULL admin
priveledges will still not allow me to delete them from the Outlook client.

They also can't be deleted from the ESM unless I delete them, one by one,
through the newsfeed section.

So, there seems to be two issues I can never resolve - one is actually
getting admin rights over public folders such that I can delete them through
the Outlook client and two, is there any way to delete public folders en
masse?

Any answers would be appreciated!

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Post by Dave Onex
Hi Folks;
I run Exchange 2000 Enterprise and have run into several instances
over the years where public folders were created but could not be
deleted. For the life of me I've never been able to find a definitive
solution to this issue so if you _know_ how please consider replying
and putting me out of my misery :-)
Set up a newsfeed, pull all the folders and then later decide to
delete the feed. This leaves hundreds (if not thousands) of public
folders. Accessing them in Outlook 2000 with a mailbox that has
administrative rights has _never_ allowed me to delete them. Going
into ESM and right clicking to Properties and then Security and
adding my mailbox account, with FULL admin priveledges will still not
allow me to delete them from the Outlook client.
They also can't be deleted from the ESM unless I delete them, one by
one, through the newsfeed section.
So, there seems to be two issues I can never resolve - one is actually
getting admin rights over public folders such that I can delete them
through the Outlook client and two, is there any way to delete public
folders en masse?
Any answers would be appreciated!

Hi - see my reply to your identical post in the other group. In the future,
please don't multipost - if you need to post to multiple groups, it's best
to crosspost instead, by posting a single message to a handful of relevant
groups (separate the NG names with commas) so that everyone can follow the
thread. Multiposting wastes everyone's time, including yours, and may lead
to your actually getting *less* help rather than more.

See http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm