index exchange 2007 public folders

Question

How can we configure Sharepoint 2007 sp1 to index Exchange 2007 sp1 public folders?  What will the user see when clicking on a crawl result?  The /public URL as the content source is not working.

Has anyone done this successfully?

Is there a guide?  Do we need a mapi profile, etc.?

Answer 1

Hi amacdougall,

 

Steve Smith, MVP wrote a tutorial about How to configure a content Source to crawl Exchange 2003 public folders in Moss2007, and the main steps do not change a lot in configuration in Exchange 2007.

 

The only thing you need to notice is that in Exchange 2007, Public folders cannot be accessed via http(s)://exchangeserver/public/folder/subfolder directly, it would redirect to http(s)://exchangeserver/owa/.

 

I do not find any guide in the Internet, so I write one in my blog. Hope it helps.

Crawling Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1)

Crawling Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2)

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in my blog are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.

 

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Answer 2

Hi amacdougall,

 

Could you please let me know if you could successfully crawl the exchange public folder now?

If you need further information, please feel free to let me know.

 

Lambert Qin

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Answer 3

Thanks Lambert!  I'll let you know by mid next week.  It seems like it will do the trick.