Post messages in public folders permission denied

[Guest]

Problem:

We have a series of public folders which are intended to host threaded
discussions, based entirely on the Product Idea sample from Randy Byrne's
"Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000" (ch. 4). Most of the
agency is running Office 2000 SR-1 and we have (still) Exchange 5.5 on the
back end. The application is working fine for a number of people, but the
key group of people, located at another location in the state, are unable to
post replies to the group. They receive a message saying that they do not
have permission, and it saves a copy to the draft folder.

Another factor. Each office has its own Exchange server, however, public
folders are not replicated across the state.

I have been told by one person at Microsoft that there was a change to the
structure of Post messages to public folders, but all of the KB notes I see
regarding that reference the change from Exchange 5.5 to 2000, which is not
affecting us. Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks,

John C. Willard
Senior Web Architect
VA Dept of Transportation
Richmond, VA

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

All emails that are sent to a public folder in Exchange 2000 are
converted into Post items. There's a hotfix for that but that's
probably what the MS person was referring to. That doesn't affect
Exchange 5.5 at all.

You will need to replicate your public folders for this to work for
you since you are using different Exchange servers and public folder
stores.

 

[Guest]

Ken

Thanks for your quick response. I checked with our Exchange Administrator,
and the public folders are already replicted to the other site. What else
could I look for?

Thanks
John Willard

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Permissions. Are they being replicated and how are they set? Check in
the folder properties for that folder to see who has what permissions
on both the master and replication servers.