In some cases you are forced to hard-remove public folders from Exchange. You can use ADSI Edit to delete these folders. Exchange 2010 Open ADSI-Edit and got to configuration Navigate to this path: CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL CN=Services CN=Microsoft Exchange CN=EXCHANGE_ORG CN=Administrative Groups CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT) CN=Databases CN=PUBLIC_FOLDER_DATABASE Now you can delete…