The Priasoft Public Folder Analysis Toolbox (PFAnalyzer) is an advanced and deep analysis and reporting solution for Microsoft Exchange Public Folders.
This solution is the result of working with many customers that have been faced with migrations of large or complicated Public Folder environments. Microsoft Exchange 2013 and later, including Office 365, have new limits on public folders that can be frustrating to identify, manage, and remediate.
For example, a single Public Folder now has a limit of 10GB maximum (items in the folder, excluding child folders). When large folders that are over or near this limit exist in a source environment, the need to identify such folders is quite important. However, identifying theses folders are only one element; there becomes a need, almost immediately, to understand who “owns” this data. Data ownership in public folders is not necessarily simple since there can be multiple accounts listed as “owner”, or no owners at all! Priasoft attempts to help with this by providing access to all permissions listed on a given folder, as well as the SENDERS to a folder.
Consider the following deep analysis elements that are available with this toolbox:
- Large and very large folder trees are supported. This product was built for 100,000+ sized trees.
- Key metadata about folders is collected, like size, item count, modified, and received dates.
- Subtree sizes are calculated as well showing total size, total item counts, and subtree folder counts for each folder.
- Folder content analysis adds additional metadata like senders, size ranges, and dates of items.
- Folder “Live View” provides remediation actions like “Split Folder” and “Export Data”.
- Pattern based analysis of item subject and body elements in folders.
Nearly every element in the application has the ability to export data out or send it to the Windows clipboard. Reports and lists can be exported as tab (TSV) or comma separated (CSV) files, or you can use your own delimiter. Even complex reporting is possible like “Export Permissions for Each Folder”.
