Re: Rehoming Public Folders in E5.5

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If it helps, my understanding is that PFAdmin is just a tool that allows you
to add and remove replicas on big batches of Public Folders, instead of
doing it one folder at a time through your admin tool.. The end result,
however, is the same. Also, what may be confusing you is that under Exchange
2000 and 2003, Public folders don't have homes, like they did under 5.5 and
earlier, so that part of your plan isn't needed.

-Peter

"Marcos" <Marcos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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James,

Thanks for the reply.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185010/en-us

This is one of the articles that talks about using pfadmin, but maybe i'm
just not undrstanding the scenario its being applied to. Under the
'Reason'
section it talks about data not being available to clients even after
rehoming.
???

"jamestechman@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

I've never used any tools although they may facilitate the process. You
have the right idea, thats basically all you need to do. Just one
pointer I'd like to share, you may not want to replicate too much data
at once time. When I re-homed the public folder from 5.5 to 2003 by
adding a replica at the root, the exchange store would basically stop
responding during the halfway mark and users would loose connectivity
to the mail server. I tried this twice and did the same thing. The size
of the pf DB was around 20GB. What I ended up doing was splitting the
data so I would only replicate about 1/4 each night. Not sure if this
was some isolated event or perf overload.

James Chong
MCSE + Messaging, MCTS
msexchangetips.blogspot.com


Marcos wrote:
Hello,

I'm confused about the articles i'm reading with regards to rehoming
public
folders.

1. Some articles describe using pfadmin to accomplish this.
2. Some artciles describe creating replicas.
3. Others talk about doing both.
4. Yet others talk about using .pst files.

Here is what i was thinking of doing:

1. Add the target exchange server to the Replicas tab under the
properties
of each Public Folder.
2. Changing the 'Home Server' for each public server in the Advanced
tab of
the public folders properties page.

Does this method work? Can anyone shed some light on what the correct
method
is? and why using the Administrator tool would not work.

Thanks in advance.




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