Public Folder child folder inheritance issue

Question

Hello fellow guru's! I'm currently experiencing an issue with the Office 365 Public Folders where child folders will not inherit permissions when I provision the parent folder and check the box to provision child folders accordingly. I've also attempted to endeavor this via PowerShell using the command below to no avail. 

PowerSHell CMD: 

Get-PublicFolder –Identity “\parentfoldername” –Recurse | Add-PublicFolderClientPermission –User jdoe –AccessRights owner

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello Ray,

Thanks for your reply.

It seems too many third-level folders that need to inherit parental permission result in a time-out. In this way, please try create a test Public Folder with a few third-level folders to check the issue and tell us the result.  Also, can you tell us the total size of the problematic public folder?

Meanwhile, may I know which Office 365 subscription are your organization using, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 Enterprise E3, etc?

Regards,

Rudy

Answer 2

Hi Rudy, 

Thanks for testing. It will work when there is are a few second level folders. However, I have about 10 second level folders under the parent folder with about 20 or 30 3rd level folders. So when I attempt to add permissions that include child folder inheritance, the permissions propagate to the first one or two second level folders then stops. It's as if the process times out. 

Thanks,

Ray

Answer 3

Hello Ray,

Based on my test, in the public folder structure, only the permissions added by the top-level file can be inherited by all the sub-folders. The permissions added below the second-level folder cannot be inherited from below. Even checked the box for the change to be applied to all sub-folders. Please see:

Note: the floder is the top-level folder, and the Test11 is the second-level folder.

So, please confirm the "parent folder" whether it is top-level folder on your side.

Regards,

Rudy

Answer 4

Hello Rudy, 

I have attempted to add a user to a parent folder and apply changes to all sub-folders via the following methods:

• While logged into the Office 365 EAC, I added a user as an owner to the parent folder and checked the box for the change to be applied to all sub-folders.
• Using PowerShell, i've attempted via this command: 
  • Get-PublicFolder –Identity “\parentfoldername” –Recurse | Add-PublicFolderClientPermission –User jdoe –AccessRights owner
• Using Microsoft Outlook 2016 (Build 1705)
  • Folders ->  right-clicked on parent folder ->  Properties -> Permissions
  • Gave user Owner permissions

In each instance, the user appears as an Owner for the parent folder, but the permissions to not propagate to all child folders. Any ideas on another way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Ray

Answer 5

Hello ProlificRay,

Could you please provide us the steps you have done in details for checking on our side?

Meanwhile, whether you configure parent folder in Outlook client? If so, please also let us know the detailed version of it: File > Office Account > About Outlook.

Moreover, if possible, please provide us more information about the issue for better understand your situation.

We appreciate your time.

Regards,

Rudy