XADM: Counter Increases While Propagating Permissions to Subfolders

SYMPTOMS

In the Microsoft Exchange Administrator program, when you are changing user rights for a group of public folders and you select the Propagate These Properties to All Subfolders option on the General tab, a progress indicator counts from 0 to the number of folders. The following message is displayed during this process:

The counter increases from 0 to total number of folders, whereas the expected behavior would be a counter that decrements.