Re: Moving Public Folders To New Partition

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Dear Russ,

it is sooooooo easy, but i am not sure what do you mean by "moving the
database to the new partition" ? how you will move them ? do mean by
browsing the physical location on your hard disk and moving the Public
Folders to the new location without changing the location path under the
properties of the Public Folder Store ? if you mean this, then NO, it will
not work.

simple you need to do the following steps:

1.. Start Exchange System Manager.
2.. Locate the Administrative Group.
3.. Under the Storage Group, click the Public Folder Store that you want
to change.
4.. Open the properties on that store, and click the Database tab.
5.. Choose a new location for the databases by clicking Browse, and
specifying a new drive or directory location for the database files. With
the databases, you can choose to move the Exchange Database (.edb file),
Exchange Streaming Database (.stm file) or both. If the databases are still
mounted, you receive the following message:
You are about to perform the following operation(s):

-change Exchange database location

To perform the requested operation(s), the store must be temporarily
dismounted which will make it inaccessible to any user.

Do you want to continue?



6. Click Yes to dismount the database automatically and move the
location.

please follow the above steps in order to correctly and safely move yor
Public Folders Database to a new location.

to read more about this subject, please refer to the following Microsoft
Knowledge Base Article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821915/en-us

please let me know if this article was helpful to you, if yes , please rate
it.


Regards

Alaa Alian Al-Ankar
Blog: http://ExchGuru.Blogspot.com

<russkiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1146609177.760113.210700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good day.

I am needing to move my, rather large, Public Folders to a new
partition. Am I wrong in assuming that it should be as easy as
'dismounting' that Public folder store, moving the database to the new
partition, and 'mounting' that store at its new location?

Thanks a ton,
Russ



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