Exam Highlights

Before taking the exam, review the key points and terms that are presented in this chapter. Return to the lessons for additional practice.

Key Points

• General Purpose public folder trees are not available to MAPI (Outlook and OWA) clients.

• Public folder replicas are all equal. There is no "master replica." Replication works on a multimaster model like Active Directory.

• Public folders cannot be moved or copied between public folder trees under any circumstances.

• Public store policies can be used to configure settings for storage limits and replication settings and can be used to apply one set of settings to as many public stores as you assign the policy to. Each public store receiving the policy will by default pass those settings on to all public folders in the store.

Key Terms

replica A copy of a public folder that is placed in a public store on another server. Replicas are used to provide fault tolerance, allowing public folders to remain available even if one server goes offline. Replicas are also used to help control bandwidth usage by creating local copies of folders that otherwise would reside on a remote server.

referral When a user attempts to access a public folder on a public folder server and the server does not contain the content the user is looking for, a referral is made to another public folder server. Referral servers are configured by default to use routing group membership, but an administrator can also configure a custom referral list to be used.

top-level folder In an Exchange Server 2003 public folder hierarchy, a top-level folder is the highest level folder in the tree. By default, users can create top-level folders, but a common security practice is to remove this permission so that only administrators can create top-level folders and users can create subfolders.

public folder tree A public folder tree is a container that creates a hierarchy of public folders. Exchange Server 2003 supports two types of public folder trees: the Default public folder tree and General Purpose public folder trees. You can have only a single Default public folder tree in an organization, but you can have as many General Purpose trees as necessary.