Public Folder – Anonymous

[Mary Ann]

When I create a public folder, I see myself as the Owner along with Default
and Anonymous. I understand that everyone for whom I don’t set specific
permissions will have the Default permissions. What is the point of
anonymous? How is it different from Default???

Confused.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

When I create a public folder, I see myself as the Owner along with
Default
and Anonymous. I understand that everyone for whom I don’t set specific
permissions will have the Default permissions. What is the point of
anonymous? How is it different from Default???

Confused.

For anonymous you don't have to log in; for default you do. You can give
anonymous different permissions from default - for example if you want
this public folder to receive e-mails from the Internet.

 

[Mary Ann]

My further question
So if I just wanted the public folder to be available to people logged in to
Outlook on the network, would it be OK to set the permissions for Anonymous
to None?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

My further question
So if I just wanted the public folder to be available to people logged
in to
Outlook on the network, would it be OK to set the permissions for
Anonymous
to None?

Yes. Or just remove the Anonymous permission group entirely.

 

[Mary Ann]

Didn't know you could do that!! Thank you

Yes. Or just remove the Anonymous permission group entirely.

 

[bk]

we have updated our exchange 2000 to exchange 2003 also the outlook 2000 to
outlook 2003, previously I am able to create public folder. but after
upgraded both server and client to 2003 , I am getting no permission to
create publis folder,

BK