Summarizing public folders and site mailboxes

Public folders have been in use since 1996; the evolution to modern public folders in Exchange 2013 is the first major technical change made in public folders in that time. The older form of public folders is important to many companies that have accumulated gigabytes if not terabytes of information in this repository. The challenge now is to make a flawless transition to the new world of modern public folders.

Site mailboxes are at the start of their journey, and I expect that a huge amount of change will take place in this space over the next few years, not least automation and simplification of the setup and automation of their management. No real operational experience exists yet for site mailboxes ...

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