Some years ago I set up an environment were I pre-populated favorites to accomplish this through logon scripting.
-- Espi On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:18 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill, > > As your thread seems to touch somewhat on my previos post, what method do > you use (if amy) to make these legacy calendars/public folders show on new > users, or do you just make them navigate the pf hierarchy ? > > Thanks > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Exchange] RE: Outlook forgetting public folder shortcuts > Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:58:51 +0000 > > > I had not seen anything particularly meaningful on the server through > which I normally run the MMC. When I logged onto the other DAG member, > though, I noticed right off it was sluggish. Event Viewer was largely > unresponsive and I saw that Microsoft.Exchange.RpcClientAccess.Service.exe > was hogging all the CPU, which brought me to > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2854376. After rebooting that server, it > generated some errors about not being able to mount the (secondary) public > folder database (although it showed mounted via the MMC). I rebooted the > other server as well and it seems to have had some impact. I am not sure > why we didn't have any complaints about performance from that server, but > it appears at this point to have been the source of the issue. The impacts > of this were pretty odd, in my estimation. I had initially (wrongly) > assumed that since you could manually navigate the public folder hierarchy > and everything showed mounted in the MMC, that it wasn't really an Exchange > problem. > > > > As always, thanks for your response, Michael. I haven't been advised that > it has solved all the reported issues, but if I am wrong I will do more > digging and may come back for help. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Michael B. Smith > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:28 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Exchange] RE: Outlook forgetting public folder shortcuts > > > > Warnings or errors in event log? I would expect them to refer to "odd" > folder names, such Folder [01-e403f]. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mayo, Bill > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:27 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Exchange] Outlook forgetting public folder shortcuts > > > > We had a significant event last week and many servers lost power, > including some of our Exchange servers. Everything came back up and things > were normalized. Since that time, though, we have a large population of > users that are complaining about Outlook forgetting shortcuts to public > folders (legacy calendars that have not been moved to shared mailboxes). > The internet suggests this is a common problem and the solution is > generally to use "/resetnavpane" and/or delete the XML file. Our folks > have tried that to no avail, as well as a number of things such as > rebuilding the profile from scratch, disabling plug-ins, safe mode, and > even reinstalling Office. What this amounts to is that the public folder > doesn't show in the list when viewing calendars and taking action to make > it reappear is lost when Outlook is closed and restarted. The problem is > similar to the one indicated in KB 2417084, except that OWA isn't involved > here. We have been on Exchange 2010 for quite a while and nobody had this > issue prior to the outage, so it surely seems related. > > > > Relevant details: > > · Exchange 2010 SP-2 RU-6 > > · Outlook 2010 in cached mode on Windows 7 > > · 2 CAS servers in NLB > > · 2 mailbox servers in DAG > > · Mailbox databases are running on "primary" server and public > folder setting is pointing to PF database on same server > > > > If anybody has any insight, it would be greatly appreciated. > > Bill Mayo >
