Determining Public Folder Hierarchy Access

When you install Exchange, a default public folder hierarchy is created. All MAPI clients such as Microsoft Outlook can access this public folder hierarchy to read messages and store documents. You can create subfolders to reflect the departments in your organization. In addition to this default hierarchy, you can create alternate public folder hierarchies for applications or Web browsers to access. Because of their intended use, there are different access methods for the default public folder hierarchy than for alternate hierarchies that you create.

The general purpose of a public folder hierarchy is displayed on the General tab of a public folder root.

Use the following table to determine the appropriate client for a public folder hierarchy.

Hierarchy type	Folder tree use displayed as	Access methods
Default	MAPI clients	MAPI clients, such as Microsoft Outlook Applications, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel Web browsers IFS shares
Alternate	General purpose	Applications, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel Web browsers IFS shares

Hierarchy type

Folder tree use displayed as

Access methods

Default

MAPI clients

MAPI clients, such as Microsoft Outlook

Applications, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel

Web browsers

IFS shares

Alternate

General purpose

Applications, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel

Web browsers

IFS shares

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