With EWS disablement in Exchange Online scheduled for October 2026, now is the time to find the right tool for public folder migrations.

CodeTwo Office 365 Migration is your best option for migrating public folders to the cloud ahead of EWS retirement in Exchange Online. 

CodeTwo Exchange Folders has been around for a while now, helping Android owners synchronize literally any Exchange calendar, contacts and tasks (public or personal) directly with their mobile phones. But so far the application was missing one crucial feature - compatibility with iOS devices. This lack did not go unnoticed. Hundreds of users from around the world sent us emails asking when they would be able to use the software to synchronize data between Exchange and their iPads, iPhones and iPods. What they didn’t know was that we were already developing a solution to meet their needs. The reason it took so long was because we wanted to get it just right.   And we did! The long awaited iOS compatible CodeTwo Exchange Folders (version 1.1.0) has just been released! You can download the new server module (Administration panel) directly from our website and the Mobile App from the Apple App Store or iTunes. To deploy the program you have to: Install the Administration panel on the Exchange Server and configure the synchronization service (more details here). NOTE: if you are already running the previous version (1.0.0), just install the new one (1.1.0) on top of it to update (all your settings and licensing information will be kept). Click here to learn more about how to update CodeTwo products. Install the Mobile Apps on mobile devices and connect them to your server. NOTE: if you are already running the previous version, just install the new one on top of it to update (all your settings and licensing information will be kept). Click here to learn more about how to update CodeTwo products. Select which Exchange folders will be available for synchronization (more details here). On the mobile devices choose which folders from Step 3 will be visible in the Mobile Apps (more details here). Here’s a list of benefits offered by CodeTwo Exchange Folders: Mobile access to contact, calendar and task folders located in all public and personal mailboxes on your company’s Microsoft Exchange Server. To ensure security all synchronized data are encrypted and travel directly between the mobile device and server (no Cloud storage) via a secure transfer tunnel opened by a TLS protocol and protected by Triple DES 168-bit encryption. Changes made either on a PC or Android/iOS device are synchronized in real-time and automatically. Your smartphones/tablets are updated wirelessly all the time via Wi-Fi or mobile Internet, regardless if you’re in your office or on the road. All HTML elements in calendar and task items (font formatting, tables, etc.) are synchronized to and from mobile devices intact. Reminders and meeting requests support. Administrator's control over access rights and settings. If you are not using CodeTwo Exchange Folders yet, make sure to give the free 30 day trial a go to see how it works. And if you have any questions related to the application, feel free to contact our Support team. Download CodeTwo Exchange Folders CodeTwo Exchange Folders vs Exchange ActiveSync Frequently asked questions  

If you setup an Exchange account in your mobile phone or tablet, you will be able to view your own Exchange mailbox but you will not be able to sync your device with any public folders on Exchange Server. It's a common problem many smartphone users encounter every day. If you need to access your company's Exchange databases, such as calendars or contacts, and then synchronize them with your mobile device to stay on top of everything, you will not be able to do it using Exchange Server native capabilities. Unfortunately, the most popular handhelds such as iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry or Android cannot be synchronized with public folders of Exchange Server unless you resort to doing a little trick. You can use a third party solution from CodeTwo. It's called CodeTwo Exchange Sync and it lets you automatically synchronize data between your personal Exchange mailbox and public folders on Exchange Server. Once your data is finally located in your mailbox, you can easily synchronize it with your smartphone using its native software. By doing so, you will always have the same amount of the most up-to-date data in your personal mailbox and in your mobile device as well: CodeTwo Exchange Sync can be installed either directly on server or on any PC in your Exchange environment. Its simple and intuitive user's interface will let you quickly configure synchronization tasks, which will be performed by the program automatically and in real time. All your synchronization tasks are located on the left hand side in the program's pane: CodeTwo Exchange Sync has various synchronization options. You can sync your folders using the following methods: one-to-one - one way synchronization one-to-many - one way synchronization many-to-one - one way synchronization folder ring - two way synchronization One-to-one synchronization will let you e.g. automatically update all shared company contacts to your private contacts folder. However, all changes in your personal contacts folder or in your mobile device will not be propagated to the shared company contacts folder: If you select a folder ring method, you can sync two (or more folders) in a two way mode. It means that any changes in any folder are propagated to all folders included in the synchronization task. In other words, if you create a folder ring synchronization task for shared company contacts, your personal contacts folder and your friends' contact folders, any changes made on your folders and mobile devices will be propagated to every folder. All in all, each folder will be a mirror of every other folder in this synchronization task: CodeTwo Exchange Sync is not only designed to let you share data between mobile devices and Exchange Server. It's ability to synchronize Exchange Server folders with private mailboxes in any mail client connected to Exchange gives you a number of collaboration possibilities. You can e.g. create a common company's calendar containing appointments entered by any group of employees. What is more, filtering and modifying tools in the program are able to mark each synchronized item on the fly to make it unique and recognizable in the group of other items (e.g. by adding the Source Folder Name or Source Mailbox Name to the subject): CodeTwo Exchange Sync can be downloaded from our website and tested for free for 30 days. The program is easy to use and can be implemented in your organization within a few minutes. Take the CodeTwo Exchange Sync tour for genera

Many companies rely on Microsoft Exchange Server’s public folders to store shared data, archive documents and collaborate on projects. At the same time, the native capabilities of Exchange Server do not allow users to view Exchange public folders on mobile devices. This wouldn’t be a major issue, if not for the fact that smartphones, tablets and other handhelds are gradually replacing laptops and desktops as primary workplace devices. Luckily, CodeTwo has a solution: CodeTwo Exchange Sync. An application which allows you to automatically synchronize Exchange public folders with users’ personal mailboxes, making the public data instantly available on users’ mobile phones. Owing to this, Exchange tasks, contacts, calendars, and other outlook items, can be viewed and modified via devices running on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, or any other system supporting Active Sync protocol.

We are happy to announce that a long awaited feature has been added to our backup solutions. Starting with this update, CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 and CodeTwo Backup for Exchange are all set to back up public folders in Office 365 and Exchange environments. CodeTwo Backup programs are secure solutions that allow to save users’ mailboxes, and now also public folders data, to local drives, archive data and, if necessary, restore entire mailboxes, folders or even single items.

Nowadays businesses often operate in a highly competitive environment. The market becomes more demanding and therefore many companies hire mobile sales teams or other field-based staff. The challenge here is to ensure that all team members, no matter where they are, have the same instant access to company’s core databases. Smartphones and tablets are gradually replacing laptops in field-based work, but is there a way to easily synchronize them with company resources?

If you're using Exchange Server to keep common company data bases (contacts, schedules, tasks , etc.), you will probably encounter a basic problem of companies similar to yours: How to pull this data out of public folders and replicate it to mobile devices of workers that work among your clients and business partners outside the office? You might be surprised with it, but this (any way you slice it) basic process can't be achieved just by using Exchange Server native capabilities. The ActiveSync service, which is responsible for syncing private folders with Windows Mobile handhelds, isn't capable of  synchronizing public folders with them. In fact, the majority of mobile devices is only able to sync themselves with default folders of a desktop mail client. Normally, you will not be able to sync your mobile device with any additional personal folder. In other words, if you create e.g. Calendar No. 2 in your Outlook you will not be able to keep it in sync with your smartphone. Furthermore, it is not possible to sync data directly from Exchange Server public folders. How to solve this issue then? CodeTwo has the right solution for you. CodeTwo Exchange Sync is an application installed directly on the server that enables automatic synchronization of selected Microsoft Exchange Server folders. The program is extremely versatile in it's applications. The ability we're most interested in, is the synchronization of Exchange Server public folders (including contacts, tasks, calendars, mail etc.) with private mailboxes and (in the wake of it) with mobile devices your workers use to access them during their fieldwork. Take a look at the picture below which illustrates this process: In order to achieve this goal, the server administrator has to configure a simple synchronization rule using CodeTwo Exchange Sync that will force the replication of selected data stored in public folders to personal folders of any end user in the company network. Then, using the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) service, the items pulled from the company data base to personal mailboxes can be easily synchronized with all mobile devices supporting the EAS protocol (Windows Mobile devices, iPhone, Blackberry, etc.). You can also use this mechanism analogically to replicate any data from any non-default folders of your mail client. In addition to this, by using different types of synchronization, such as One-Way or Two-Way, the administrator can decide which employees have the right to update personal folders via their smart phones and which are only authorized to view them. CodeTwo Exchange Sync is an easy-to-use, but yet extremely powerful application that will allow you to deploy completely new work-group scenarios in your company. The evaluation copy is free of charge and remains fully functional for 30 days. The program has been recently voted 2nd Runner-Up in MSExchange.org Reader's Choice pole organized by MSExchange.org in December 2010. Read more about CodeTwo Exchange Sync Download CodeTwo Exchange Sync 30-day trial CodeTwo Home