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FolderMatic™ enables Exchange Administrators (and users with highly escalated Exchange privileges) to define a template structure of Calendar, Contact and Task folders and then rapidly clone the structure to multiple server-side mailboxes. FolderMatic is a .Net application for Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2003 SBS and can be used separately but is often used as a companion product to Add2Exchange for Calendars, Contacts and Tasks™ available from www.diditbetter.com.
If you are considering using both FolderMatic AND Add2Exchange, use the Add2Exchange installation guide for all prerequisites since FolderMatic needs the same permissions as the Add2Exchange Service Account. After you have installed and configured Add2Exchange, you can simply install this software by using the Add2Exchange Service Account. If you are already using or will use Add2Exchange for Calendars, Contacts and Tasks, you SHOULD use the Add2Exchange Service Account to install and administer FolderMatic. You already have the permissions, so just run the FolderMaticSetup.msi.
If you do not or will not use Add2Exchange, you are required to perform all the following prerequisites prior to installation.
DO NOT INSTALL FolderMatic as the default Administrator Account nor any account with Domain Admins group membership since this goes against Microsoft's security model and the software will not operate correctly. These accounts have denied full Mailbox access.
Since FolderMatic Clone-A-Folder for Microsoft Exchange needs the same permissions as Add2Exchange for Calendars Contacts and Tasks, we used the Add2Exchange Manual as a template for prerequisites. Since many users do or will use Add2Exchange, for the purposes of this manual we will call the account you use to install and use FolderMatic, as the Service Account and show you pictures and examples of the Add2Exchange Service Account and configuration. You can call your account anything you want as long as it is not an existing account and you make the new account with the exact privileges and group security we require.
Warning: The Service Account will be made with expanded Exchange privileges to log on, install and use FolderMatic, and this username and password combination should not be given out lightly. In some respects it is one of the most powerful accounts on your system, even more powerful than Domain Administrators. Again, the Service Account is an extremely powerful account and should not be available to all users. Since the program impersonates users in your Exchange Server and can open and read and change any folder in the mailbox, you can NOT install and use this program by "all users", obviously, since most users don't have the appropriate rights. Nor should you copy shortcuts around from desktop to desktop again for the same reason.
Once installed, this tool is typically a tool to be used by the Exchange Administrator logged in as the Service Account to make and clone folders to many users - "en masse". The FolderMatic administrator user will log on as the Service Account to utilize the power of FolderMatic Clone-A-Folder for Microsoft Exchange.
Again, if you do not use Add2Exchange and have not created an Add2Exchange Service account and Add2ExchangeSecurityGroup for this purpose, the account you create for FolderMatic can not be part of the Domain Administrators Group and Exchange Domain Servers Groups in Active Directory.
If all this seems too much for you, you can always schedule a DiditBetter Remote Support session for our technical staff to assist you and certify your configuration, explain and facilitate the Prerequisites in the section Step by Step Pre-Installation Instructions.
If you are upgrading from a previous version, continue with the next section. Again, to administer FolderMatic, always log on as the Service Account, and run the upgrade to get the latest version of FolderMatic. Unlike Add2Exchange, which has a service it uses, there is no need to uninstall and then reinstall, just install over the original install every time you upgrade.
Current manuals, versions and technical support instructions are always listed on the www.DidItBetter.com website.