Exchange 2007 Management console doesn’t allow to use a mail-enabled public folder as a destination for transport rules, so the only way it’s make the rule from PowerShell.

In the following example we’ll create a Transport rule that sends a blind copy to a mail-enabled public folder for each message sent by a user.


$Mailbox = "user@example.local"
$PublicFolder = "PF1mailenabled-pf-01"
$condition = Get-TransportRulePredicate From
$condition.Addresses = @(( Get-Mailbox $Mailbox ))
$action = Get-TransportRuleAction BlindCopyTo
$action.Addresses = @(( Get-MailPublicFolder $PublicFolder ))
New-TransportRule -name "From $Mailbox Send A Bcc To $PublicFolder" -Conditions @($condition) -Actions @($action)


One of the frequent issues we see when supporting Small to Medium businesses (SMB) is replication issues caused by problems with physical Active Directory design. When I say “physical design” I don’t mean forests, tree roots, domains, child domains, etc. Those are elements of logical design. Physical design, in a nutshell, is how you configure the various elements in Active Directory Sites & Services. When these elements work harmoniously, Active Directory will reward you with fast & efficient replication. If mistakes are made, they’ll be compounded by the amount of replication traffic and at worst (typically in coordination with some other misconfiguration) can bring replication grinding to a halt. So let’s go over physical Active Directory design at a basic level.

The first rule of physical design is “You do not talk about Fight Club.” Wait a minute……wrong topic; my mistake. The first rule of physical design is to let…