Find Modern Public Folder Parent Path

In Legacy Public Folder World with Exchange Server 2010, it was pretty easy to find the parent path of email enabled public folder:

(Get-MailPublicFolder MAILADRESS | Get-PublicFolder).ParentPath

Problem

You receive an error when you try the same approach with modern public folders using Exchange Server 2013+ EMS.

Get-MailPublicFolder MSTeamsPF@varunagroup.de | Get-PublicFolder

Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'Identity'. Cannot convert the "varunagroup.de/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/MSTeamsPF" value of type "Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId" to type"Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.PublicFolderIdParameter".    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (MSTEamsPF:PSObject) [Get-PublicFolder], ParameterBindinmationException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,Get-PublicFolder    + PSComputerName        : P01.varunagroup.de

Solution

You need to use the EntryId parameter of the Get-MailPublicFolder result.

$pf = Get-MailPublicFolder MSTeamsPF@varunagroup.de
Get-PublicFolder -Identity $pf.EntryIdName            
Parent Path
----            ---------
MSTeamsPF       Modern Collaboration

Get-PublicFolder does not take pipeline inputs.

Links

• Find parent path for email activated Public Folder

Enjoy modern public folders 🙂