Question : Cannot browse public folders in IE exchange 2007 sp1. OWA works fine.

I have Exchange 2007 running fine with SP1.  In OWA, Public folders can be accessed by clicking bottom left hand button.  But I cannot browse to public folders using IE.  i.e. https://server/public.  I am told this must work for my Public folder scanning for GFI.
In IIS I do not have a folder called Public like I had with Exchange 2003, but GFI say this is OK.  I have looked through the public folder Management consule, but I cant find where I have to setup the Alias for public.

I think my problem maybe that I migrated from Exchange 2003, which had a public folder in IIS.

please can anyone help, as GFI have told me to speak to Microsoft!!

Answer : Cannot browse public folders in IE exchange 2007 sp1. OWA works fine.

I have solved this with the guy from GFI.

I ran the following Exchange shell command:

New-OWAVirtualDirectory -OwaVersion:Exchange2003or2000 -VirtualDirectoryType PublicFolders -Name "public" -WebSiteName "Default Website"

This created the public virtual directory in IIS, and the GFI process to scan public folders then worked.

I can also now browse to localhost/public.

The only thing that bothers me is that we had to set it up as OwaVersion:Exchange2003or2000 .
I am hoping this doesn't throw up another problem.

I tried setting as type Exchange2007, but I got this error.
New-OwaVirtualDirectory : VirtualDirectoryType parameter does not apply to Exchange 2007 virtual directories.
Parameter name: VirtualDirectoryType
At line:1 char:24
+ New-OWAVirtualDirectory  <<<< -OwaVersion:Exchange2007 -VirtualDirectoryType
PublicFolders -Name "public" -WebSiteName "Default Web Site"

Thanks Terry