Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 upgrade fails with public folder ACL permissions issue

I have seen a few instances now where upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 will give an error of:

Access control list (ACL) inheritance is blocked for the Public Folder tree object (CN=Public Folders,CN=Folder Hierarchies,CN=first administrative group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=<Your domain>,CN=Microsoft Exchange, CN=Services, CN=Configuration, DC=<your domain>, DC=<your domain suffix>). Re-enable the inheritance and restart setup

The easiest way I have discovered to fix this is through ADSIEdit .

Open ADSIEdit.msc, Select the Configuration partition then drill down the tree through this path

• Service
• Microsoft Exchange
• Your Exchange organization
• Administrative groups
• First Administrative Group 
• Select Folder Hierarchies 

You should now see CN=Public Folders in the right hand pane. Right click and go to properties then the security tab of both the Folder Hierarchies folder and the CN=Public Folders item. In the security tab click the advanced button and make sure"Allow inheritable permissions" is checked for both of them. After this is done retry your install.