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Convert Public Folder to Shared mailbox

We are in the process to migrating form exchange 201 to O365. We have a number of public folders that we would like to convert to shared mailboxes.

I was wondering the easiest way of doing this. Is there a way to do this using powershell?

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There is no built-in method.
You would need to create a shared mailbox, move the items to that mailbox and move the SMTP address of the public folder if mail-enabled.

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What would you suggest would be the best method to to move the Iteams to the new shared mailbox?

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Using outlook may be the easiest.

Note you can migrate a public folder to an Office 365 Group
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55985


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Hi @leeroberts-8039

Agree with Andy, the easiest method to do this should be:
1.create new shared mailboxes on O365
2.use Outlook to export the items in the public folders to PST files
3.use Outlook to import the PST files into the shared mailboxes

Below are links of the Outlook export/import process:
Export:Back up your email
Import:Import email, contacts, and calendar from an Outlook .pst file


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Hi @leeroberts-8039

I am writing here to confirm with you how thing going now?
Did the issue get resolved?

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