Hi All,Setup : Three PF Servers (2 Exchange 2000 servers, 1 Exchange 2007 server hosting replica). 1 Mailbox server with some databases pointing to different replicas.I have a request for one user account to have permissions on all the public folders in the tree.The user account is a service account which will be used by a different team for scanning PII information in public folders.Answer is to give the user appropriate client permissions on all the public folders. I can achieve this by using PFDAV or through power shell command. However, this timei tried something new. I tried giving the user account Exchange View Only Administrator Permissoions.Configured outlook and saw to my surprise thatthe useris not able to see the public folders.Any reason why ?Secondly i do not seepermissions tab on the root public folders in ESM, so i tried adding directory permissions through securty tab and gave read permissions.. no go still unable to see the contents in the public folders.Is there a way apart from giving the permissions through thePFDAV or powershell.ThanksShiv

Hi Shiv,Did you get a chance to have a look into this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123509.aspxRaj

I guess you can achieve this using PFDAVADMIN that is most easiest part. Try propagating the permission from Root level and down to all other sub folders You can refer below to run PFDAVADMIN against EX2007 server http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com/2008/01/pfdavadmin-exchange-2007-and-v11-net.htmlVinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3|

Hi Rajnish,Thank you for taking time in answering this !The above article does not speak about adding the account to a group which enables the account to view the contents of all the folders across the tree. The article above says with those permissions, user would be able to see the permissions assigned on those public folders.ThanksShiv

Hi Rajnesh and Vinod,Thanks for your help! I was looking for something appart from PFDAV and Exchange Shell. Now after breaking my head for few days i came to a conclusion there is no other easy method to give a user permissions by just making the user member of some group so that he will be able to access the contents of all the public folders in the tree.Something to share PFDAV is WEBDAV based tool which i used to use prior to shell, with shell things are faster and life is easier... Import-CSV "Filename.csv" | foreach-object { Add-publicfolderclientpermissions -user -accessrights -confirm: $false } This will do the job from shell.. this will take less time to complete relatively when compared to PFDAV.ThanksShiv

Cool, so finally you got it working some shell commandsand some tools.Raj

Hi,Thanks for your sharing on this issue.Allen

Thanks, I was able to give to a user the"owner" permission, for each public folder, using this command :Get-PublicFolder -Recurse -Server "MyServer" | ForEach-Object {Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity $_.Identity -User "DOMAIN\user" -AccessRights owner -Server "MyServer"}Laurent