Listing Public Folders in Exchange Server

This weekend I built an entirely new virtual environment for my PowerShell classes moving forward. Essentially I did this to add in some SQL, Exchange and DSC scenarios. Just in time to. I have two Exchange administrators in my PowerShell class this week here in Fort Wayne so I am using my new setup to enhance the class. Here is the first one.

How do I let all of the public folders, including sub folders?

The Get-PublicFolder cmdlet can be used for this. Here is the public folder structure that I created using the New-PublicFolder cmdlet.

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Folder1
Folder2
	FolderA
		Folder1A
		Folder2A
	FolderB

This command will recover all the public folders and their parents.

PS C:> Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Select -Property name,parentpath

Name ParentPath

---- ----------

IPM_SUBTREE

Folder1 \

Folder2 \

FolderA \Folder2

Folder1A \Folder2\FolderA

Folder2A \Folder2\FolderA

FolderB \Folder2

The second question is how to filter for public folders within a parent folder?

PS C:\> Get-PublicFolder -Recurse |

Where-Object {$_.ParentPath -like "*Folder2*"} |

Select -Property name,parentpath

Name ParentPath

---- ----------

FolderA \Folder2

Folder1A \Folder2\FolderA

Folder2A \Folder2\FolderA

FolderB \Folder2

Here we are using The Where-Object cmdlet to filter the ParentPath property. The Value of ParentPath is a string. In this example, we are looking for any folder inside of Folder2.

Another option utilizes the FolderPath property. The FolderPath property is an array of strings.

PS C:\> Get-PublicFolder -Recurse |

Select-Object -Property Name, FolderPath |

Where-Object {$_.FolderPath -contains "Folder2"}

Name FolderPath

---- ----------

Folder2 {Folder2}

FolderA {Folder2, FolderA}

Folder1A {Folder2, FolderA, Folder1A}

Folder2A {Folder2, FolderA, Folder2A}

FolderB {Folder2, FolderB

This output also contains the root folder in the query, Folder2.

More to come as we continue this week.

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