Public Folders can only be migrated to other public folders or shared mailboxes. We do not migrate Public Folders to individual user mailboxes or Microsoft 365 Group mailboxes or vice versa. Mail-enabled public folders are not supported for destination endpoints that are Exchange On-Premise and will need to be mail-enabled manually. For additional details about items that are and are not migrated from public folders, see our Migrated and Not Migrated Items article.

Exchange 2010 SP1+ & Microsoft 365

Migrated

• Public Folders
• Subfolders
• User Permissions
• Mail-Enabled Security Group Permissions (Default and Anonymous User Permissions are not supported)

Not Migrated

• Rules

Not Migrated in any Exchange Instance

• Email templates
• Email flags (if the destination is G Suite)
• Safe Sender/Block Lists
• Mail Settings
• Standalone documents stored in Mailbox Folders or Public Folders (Example: IPM.Document item types)
• System Public Folders
• StickyNote folders

Not Migrated in Exchange 2007: Public Folder Permissions

The steps listed below apply to both the source and/or destination tenant when they are Exchange Online, in regards to Exchange Web Services (EWS) in mailbox, archive mailbox, and public folder projects. Use a Global Administrator for the configuration steps.

For setup steps that include images, see under Enabling Modern Authentication for EWS between MigrationWiz and your Exchange Online Tenant in the following KB: Authentication Methods for Microsoft 365 (All Products) Migrations

Important: Failure to perform the steps for your Microsoft 365 endpoints, can result in failed jobs with 401 errors like the following in your project: Http POST request to 'autodiscover-s.outlook.com' failed - 401 Unauthorized

The administrator account being used for the project needs to be excluded from any MFA/2FA policies or Conditional Access policies that can block access for the administrator account. This requirement does not apply to the items or users being migrated in the project.

Configuring Modern Authentication to work with MigrationWiz for mailbox, archive mailbox, and public folder projects in Exchange Online is now the default method after Microsoft discontinued support for Basic Authentication in Exchange Online after December 2022. The following Microsoft documentation outlines this change in more detail. Should you have additional questions on how this change may impact your tenant, please contact Microsoft to assist with providing that information: Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online

The Azure Security Defaults must also be disabled in the tenant. (This is often enabled by default for all new Exchange Online tenants and there is no workaround for this requirement). For steps on where to enable/disable the Azure Security Defaults, see Enabling security defaults in the following Microsoft documentation. To disable, set Enable Security defaults to No: Security defaults in Azure AD

• Log in to the Azure AD admin console with a Global Administrator login.
• Select Azure Active Directory in the Azure Active Directory Admin Center.
• Select App Registrations, which is found under Manage.
• Select New Registration at the top of the screen.
• Give the app a distinct name. You can change this later if necessary.
• Select the Accounts in any organizational directory button.
• Under Redirect Uri, select Public Client (mobile & desktop) and set it to urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob
• Click Register.
• Go back to App registrations.
• Select the App you just created.
• In the Overview, you will find a ClientId (aka Application) and Directory (Tenant) ID.
• Copy both of these to another application, such as Notepad, for use later in this process.
• Under the Manage menu, select Authentication.
• Set the option Allow public client flows to Yes. 
• Click Save.
• From the Manage menu, select API permissions.
• If API permission named User.Read under Microsoft Graph is already present, this can be removed. The Microsoft Graph API is not applicable to this project type and is not used.
• Select Add a Permission.

• Select APIs my organization uses

• Scroll down and select Office 365 Exchange Online

• Then select Delegated Permissions

• Select EWS

• Check the box under EWS for EWS.AccessAsUser.All.
• Click Add permissions. This permission only allows the OAuth application (MigrationWiz) to be associated with EWS.
  1. • Important: This does not grant access to all mailbox data.
• Click Grant admin consent.
• Click Yes to confirm the settings.
• In MigrationWiz, select the project that needs to be configured for Modern Authentication.
• Click the Edit Project menu.
• Select Advanced Options.
• Under Support Options enter the ClientID and TenantID information you saved earlier in the following format:
  • If enabling Modern Authentication for the Source:
    • ModernAuthClientIdExport=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
    • ModernAuthTenantIdExport=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • If enabling Modern Authentication for the Destination:
    • ModernAuthClientIdImport=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
    • ModernAuthTenantIdImport=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx 
      • Enter the specific ClientID and TenantID for your tenant in place of the xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.
      • These options can be entered for either the Source or the Destination, or both, depending on the settings on the tenants.
      • These options need to be configured for each MigrationWiz project that needs to have Modern Authentication enabled.
        
        
• Run a Verify Credentials to confirm that MigrationWiz can connect using Modern Authentication. 
• Click on the item that was verified. There will be a message in the MigrationWiz Migration Information page that Modern Authentication is being used. This message will show in the “Migration Errors” box; however, it is not an error. This is just a message confirming that Modern Authentication is now active and being used for the connection.

1. Grant admin permissions
2. Break up large folders (if required)

Grant admin permissions

• Grant elevated 'Organization Management' administrator role to the migrating administrator account. Refer to Assigning the Elevated Admin Role 'Organization Management' to a Public Folder Account for Migration.
• Ensure that the source administrator account has a mailbox enabled and is located on the same Exchange server as the source Public Folder database or mailbox.
• Ensure that the migrating administrator account has permission in all Public Folders (Read only or "Reviewer" access rights should be enough). For more information, see Granting Necessary Permissions to Source Public Folders.

Break up large folders

You will want to perform these tasks first before beginning your migration. If you are migrating more than 1,000 folders (including sub folders) and/or more than 20GB of data, break these folders up before contacting BitTitan Support.

• Split up large Public Folders: if any source Public Folders contain more than 100,000 items (if Source = O365, Exchange 2010 or later), these should be split into multiple Public Folders as they can cause migrations to be held up with processing of the high number of items. Breaking up these folders can help with faster migration speeds. For more information, see Finding Public Folder Size for Migration. 
• Any individual Public Folders that are over 20GB in size should be split up into smaller folders of 20GB or less. Failure to complete this step can negatively impact migration performance and speed.

1. Use a global administrator account for the tenant. This can be an already created account or can be created specifically for this migration. The administrator account being used for the migration must have a licensed mailbox enabled in the tenant.
2. Create the shared mailboxes and grant the destination administrator account Full Access permissions to the shared mailboxes. The steps to create these are defined in a TechNet article here.
3. If the destination is Microsoft 365, increase the shared mailboxes maxsend and maxreceive size to 150MB. If the destination is Exchange, increase the message size limits.

Increase message size limits

Increase the public folder quotas to Unlimited. The default Microsoft 365 Public Folder quota setting is 2GB, with the issue warning set to 1.7GB. These steps are from our article Microsoft 365 Public Folder Migration FAQ.

1. Open a PowerShell session and enter the following. Then press Enter:
   $LiveCred = Get-Credential
Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
Import-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
Connect-ExchangeOnline -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred

    

2. Enter the following command and press Enter. This will show you the current limits set on the public folder mailboxes:
   Get-Mailbox -PublicFolder | fl Name,MaxSendSize,MaxSendSize
3. Enter the following command and press Enter. This will increase the MaxSendSize and MaxReceiveSize to the maximum allowed limits. (If there are items at the source that are larger than 150 MB, they will not migrate.)
   Get-Mailbox -PublicFolder | Set-Mailbox -PublicFolder -MaxReceiveSize 150MB -MaxSendSize 150MBAdditional details about send and receive size limits can be found in our Best Practices for Migrating On-Premises Exchange Public Folders article.

The following steps will be performed in MigrationWiz.

1. Create project
2. Set endpoints
3. Add items
4. Run Verify Credentials
5. Purchase licenses
6. Set Advanced Options

Purchase licenses

Purchase Public Folder licenses. To obtain an estimate of the number of Public Folder migration licenses required for your migration project, follow the directions in Estimating the Required Public Folder Migration License Count.

Set Advanced Options

1. Select the option for Migrate to: Shared Mailbox. This will be found under either Destination: Exchange Server 2007+ or Destination: Microsoft Office 365, depending on what was selected when creating the destination endpoint.
2. Under Source/Destination, set the value for Migrate Permissions For from New Folders Only to New folders and existing folders. This is required because Public Folder mapping scripts have been created. See Migrating Public Folder Permissions
3. Set value for Licensing/Maximum licenses to consume per item per pass licensing count. Default = 1. This allows up to 10GB to be migrated. Example: If migrating all Public Folders, using the forward slash ( / ), and the total data size = 78GB, then increase this value to 8 (otherwise the migration will pause at 10GB). See MigrationWiz Licenses.
4. Set your Preferred BitTitan Data Center. For the most optimum migration speeds, select the Data Center that is closest to your Microsoft 365 destination tenant. Refer to MigrationWiz - General - FAQ.

Under Support Options add:

• RemoveFilterBasedOnFolderType=1 This support option is required if Public Folders contain items other than mail, such as calendar and contact items. This option stays in place for the entire migration process.
• MustMigrateAllPermissions=1 This flag is required in order to migrate Public Folder permissions to a shared mailbox. This Advanced Option allows you to migrate all folder permissions, not only the system folders when migrating from Exchange 2010+ mailboxes as, by default, only systems folder permissions are migrated. We do not migrate Delegation, SendAs/SendOnBehalfOf permissions or any permissions for the Default or Anonymous user accounts. For more information, see Migrating Public Folders to Shared Mailboxes.
   Note: This option stays in place for the entire migration process.

1. Set first pass Project Advanced Options. For more information on running multiple passes, see Pre-Stage vs. Big Bang Strategy for Public Folders.
   
   • Set Date Filter to migrate items older than six (6) months. Date range filters can be set under Advanced Options.
2. Perform first pass for items older than 6 months by running a Full Migration. 
3. Set second pass Project Advanced Options.
   
   • Set the Date Filter to migrate items newer than six (6) months. 
4. Perform a second pass for items newer than 6 months by running a Full migration.
5. Request the migration statistics. Click the bar chart icon on the MigrationWiz dashboard to receive an email containing all the project migration statistics.