Public Folder DL Archive

You want to use a public folder to archive content from a distribution list.

1. New-PublicFolder -Name "Company News" -path "\Discussion List Archives"
2. Add-PublicFolderClientPermission "\Discussion List Archives\Company News" -User YourUserAlias -AccessRights FolderOwner
3. Use Outlook 2003/2007 to assign permissions to groups and users.
4. Enable-MailPublicFolder "\Discussion List Archives\Company News" -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
5. Set-MailPublicFolder "\Discussion List Archives\Company News" -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false -EmailAddresses companynews-archive@domain.com -WindowsEmailAddress companynews-archive@domain.com
6. Use the Exchange Management Console to create a  Distribution Group called "Company News" as you normally would
7. (Pre-Exchange 2007 SP1 step) Using ADSIEdit, locate the public folder object called "Company News" in the Microsoft Exchange System Objects container in the domain partition.  Copy the value of distinguishedName to the clipboard
8. (Pre-Exchange 2007 SP1 step) Using ADSIEdit, locate the distribution list object for "Company News" and add the distinguishedName value you copied in the previous step as an entry to the members property
9. Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission "\Discussion List Archives\Company News" -User YourUserAlias -AccessRights FolderOwner