Volume 24 Issue 9

Today's Highlights:

• Sharing a Calendar by email
• Public Folder Quota
• Managing Public Folders using PowerShell
• Office 365 Home Premium Giveaway

Sharing a Calendar by email

For many years, Outlook had an option to share a calendar by email, accessible when you right clicked on the calendar folder. To use, you simply needed to right click on the calendar folder, choose Share > Email Calendar to create a new email with a nicely formatted agenda in the message body and an attached *.ics file. You could choose the level of detail to share, from Free/Busy to Full details, as well as the time frame to share, from today to the entire calendar.

For users with Exchange mailboxes (including Outlook.com), the Email Calendar command is missing from the menu in newer versions of Outlook, replaced by the new Sharing Permissions command in Exchange mailboxes. The Share menu, and Email Calendar, is available for shared mailboxes and calendars in pst files.

The Email Calendar command is still available in Outlook but needs added to the ribbon or Quick Access toolbar.  Look for it in Options > Custom Ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar, under All Commands.

Public Folder Quota

An administrator was unable to move messages into their public folders, receiving a message that the message store was overquota. They only had about 10 GB of data in the public folder mailbox, so the public folder store had plenty of free space.

The message store has reached its maximum size. to reduce the amount of data in this message store, select some items that you no longer need.

The error message is misleading; the issue isn’t with the size of the public folder store, but with the size of the specific folder he was trying to move messages into. The default size for a public folder quota is 2GB and that specific folder was at 2GB.

To eliminate the error message, he needs to use PowerShell to change the folder quota.

To raise the folder quota, use the Set-OrganizationConfig PowerShell cmdlet to raise both the folder quota and warning quota.

Set-OrganizationConfig -DefaultPublicFolderProhibitPostQuota 1oGB
Set-OrganizationConfig -DefaultPublicFolderIssueWarningQuota 9.7GB

For more information, see these Microsoft articles:

• Set-OrganizationConfig
• Limits for public folders
• Exchange Online Limits

Managing Public Folders using PowerShell

While we’re on the subject of Public Folders, use these PowerShell cmdlets to create public folders, change permissions, or mail enable the folders.

Create a public folder in the root:
New-PublicFolder -Name “folder name”

Add a subfolder of an existing public folder:
New-PublicFolder -Path "\parentfolder” -Name “folder name”

Add permissions to all folders and subfolders:

Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -User alias -AccessRights Owner
Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -User Default -AccessRights Reviewer
Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -User Anonymous -AccessRights None

To add permissions to a specific folder and it’s subfolders:
Get-PublicFolder -Identity "\parent folder\" -Recurse | Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -User alias -AccessRights Owner
Note: to change a user’s permissions, remove their permissions and then assign new permissions.

Remove all permissions:
Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission

Remove a specific user’s permissions from a specific folderpath:
Get-PublicFolder -Identity "\parent folder" -Recurse | Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission -User alias -Confirm:$false

To mail-enable a public folder and set the primary SMTP address

Enable-MailPublicfolder -Identity "\folder name"
Set-MailPublicFolder -Identity "folder name" -PrimarySmtpAddress folderemail@domain.com -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false

More information is available in this Microsoft articles:

• New-PublicFolder
• Set-PublicFolder
• Add-PublicFolderClientPermission
• Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission
• Enable-MailPublicFolder
• Set-MailPublicFolder

Office 365 Home Premium Giveaway

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I’ll draw a winner in a few days, on May 1, the second winner on June 1, and the final winner on July 1 2019. Enter now and you'll be included in all 3 drawings.

If you have a current Home Premium subscription, this will extend your subscription for 1 year. If you have a personal subscription, it extends the license for one year and upgrades it to the Home version.

New & Updated Exchange KB Articles

Microsoft support policy for the customization of Outlook Web Access for Exchange
https://support.microsoft.com/help/327178

The recipient scope setting doesn't work for sibling domains when including OUs in the scope in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4487591

New & Updated Office 365 KB Articles

'0xC004F038: The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated' in KMS activation
https://support.microsoft.com/help/983845

'MAPI was unable to load the information service .dll' in add-ins that do not register DLLs correctly
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4498413

April 23, 2019, update for Word 2013 (KB2986234)
https://support.microsoft.com/help/2986234

How to uninstall Office automatically
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4027149

New & Updated Outlook KB Articles

Attached Outlook items not retained in Office 365 Group Calendar meeting or appointment
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4499943

MAPI solutions do not work because Outlook.exe is not properly registered under the \App Paths key in the Registry
https://support.microsoft.com/help/2698523

Useful tools for Outlook for Mac
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4483875