Exchange Public Folders

How to Set Permissions on Exchange Public Folders

The Commonwealth Office of Technology would like to remind all state agencies of the importance of protecting sensitive/confidential information. Within the state's IT infrastructure there are places that allow for and encourage collaboration of ideas and resources for the betterment of government and the services provided to the citizens of the Commonwealth.

With that responsibility, also comes a responsibility to safeguard the information entrusted in our care. In order to better educate IT users on how best to safeguard information used within the Public Folder area of the state's e-mail system, an instructional video is available.  Additional information about the video is available in the questions and answers below.

WHAT:    Instructional video - "How to Set Permissions on Exchange Public Folders"
WHY: To learn how to protect public folders within Kentucky's Exchange e-mail environment.
WHO: The video should be viewed by all staff who are assigned responsibility for managing public folders within each respective state agency. Casual e-mail users who are not responsible for owning or managing public folders do not need to view this video.
BY: The video was prepared by COT's E-mail Team and is stored on a COT streaming video server.
WHEN: The video can be viewed at any time and lasts approximately 4 minutes.
HOW: To view the video, click on the link below. The video will be played by Windows Media Player unless your PC is set up to use a different video player.

View the video: “How to Set Permissions on Exchange Public Folders” (4 min.)