Steve Smith, MVP wrote a tutorial about How to configure a content Source to crawl Exchange 2003 public folders in Moss2007, and I saw lot of people asking how to crawling Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders.

Public folders changed a lot from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, an obvious change is you cannot access via http(s)://exchangeserver/public/folder/subfolder, it would redirect to http(s)://exchangeserver/owa/. This changes causes that it is a bit hard to configure SharePoint to crawl Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders.

According to the article here, you need to have both Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 and SharePoint Server Service Pack 1 installed before performing the actions.

First, I would like to make the scenario simple, I remove all the SSL things , it looks like a normal HTTP sites.

1. Remove All SSL setting in the Exchange Server 2007.

1). Change the internal URL to use HTTP instead of HTTPs.

2). Un-check Require SSL option of SSL Settings in IIS Manager for OWA and Public virtual directory (vDir).

3). Restart IIS using IISReset /noforce.

4). Access the Test public folder “http://exchangeserver/public” for testing purpose.

you would see the URL direct to “http://exchangeserver/OWA” and the classic logon windows asks for your credential, so far so good.

 

2. Add a new content source in SharePoint to crawl.

3. Start a Full Crawl and check the results.

If you are working on a demo or test farm, you could just remove the SSL to make life easier. In next blog, I would add the SSL back :)