Re: Removing Empty, but Replicated Public Folders

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Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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See inline comments...
"Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Right. Look at the properties of the folder itself, Replicas tab. What
public folder servers hold replicas?
There are no Public Folders on the E2K7 server,
It is replicating the instances of global events, internal, Offline
Address Book, etc.to the E2K3 server - any attempts to remove replicas
meets with the comment "Can not remove the selected replica(s) becuase a
public folder must have at least one replica." It doesn't seem to care
that the %(&*#%(&^($ thinks are all 0K in size!

From Exchange 2003 ESM, remove the Exchange 2003 server replicas of the
Exchange 2007 folders, and if the Exchange 2003 server holds the only
replica of a folder that should be on the Exchange 2007 server, you could
either delete the folder or put the only replica on the Exchange 2007
server.


Remove the Exchange 2007 server and

Do you mean to turn the server off and then remove it? It won't allow
deleting while it is on. If so, will I then be able to bring it back up
and remove E2K7 fron the server so that all the Active Directory junk is
removed too? I really want a clean uninstall as it seems that everything I
do in E2K7 bites me badly.

No, I mean remove that server name from the list of replicas. You've said
you've done that, though.

then propagate the replicas settings down to all child folders. Do the
same for all other top level folders. Also remove replicas of the
Free/Busy and OAB system folders. Doing that will ensure that your
Exchange 2007 public folder store won't have any replicas assigned to it
of your Exchange 2003 public content. If you have done all of this, then
there should be no need to run the PowerShell script you're trying to run
becuase there will be no replicas in the Exchange 2007 public store to
move.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Then I don't understand what you are asking me to do. When you say "top
level folder", what do you mean exactly? Top level under First
Administrative Group, Folders, Public Folders on the Exchange 2003
server? It shows no replication being done - the only server listed
under the Replication tab is the 2003 server itself for each folder
directly under Public Folders.

You said:
Using Exchange 2003 System Manager, on each *top-level folder*, change
the
replicas to remove the Exchange 2007 server, and then right-click the
folder, select All Tasks, Propagate Settings, and choose to propagate
the
replicas. You can also use PFDAVADMIN to do this, or PFMIGRATE, but I
don't
think either are any easier for you if you're talking about ending up
with a
simple structure.

"Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That isn't the way I told you to do it.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No can do - I tell the replicas on the Exchange 2007 server via ESM,
right-click the Exchange 2007 Public Folder Store, select "Move All
Replicas" to move back to the Exchange 2003 server and get the
following message:
"Your profile is not configured.
An unexpected, unknown error occurred.
Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store
ID no: 8004011c-0521-00000000

ID no: c1050000
Exchange System Manager"

I really hate working with Exchange 2007 - it appears to me that it
was rushed to market, disregarding all of the things really necessary
to make it work with Exchange 2003, IMHO.

Having given feedback to MS on the Message Tracking tool, I got this
response, which appears to strengthen my opinion:
"Thank you for the feedback Bill. We are sorry you aren't satisfied
with the new GUI (I assume you are talking about the GUI since you are
sending feedback on this alias). Since transport was changed
significantly in Exchange 2007, the message tracking logic had to be
completely reworked, and the bulk of our effort in the admin area went
into putting all of our business logic into Powershell cmdlets. Due
to resource and time constraints, the GUI work was originally cut and
then we decided to try to ease the expected pain somewhat by providing
a scripted UI using the same framework we had developed for our
troubleshooter tools. Since its scripted, it is unfortunately less
sophisticated."


"Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Using Exchange 2003 System Manager, on each top-level folder, change
the replicas to remove the Exchange 2007 server, and then right-click
the folder, select All Tasks, Propagate Settings, and choose to
propagate the replicas. You can also use PFDAVADMIN to do this, or
PFMIGRATE, but I don't think either are any easier for you if you're
talking about ending up with a simple structure.

Don't forget to remove the replicas of any of the Exchange 2003
Schedule+ Free/Busy folders and the Offline Address Book folders.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am throwing in the towel on Exchange 2007 until a ServicePack or 2
are out - it has crashed my Exchange 2003 system too many times. I am
trying, after removing all mailbox databases, to remove the Public
Folder database, which I am forced to remove before removing Exchange
2007. I am running the moveallreplicas.ps1 script and get this:

[PS] D:\PROGRAM FILES\microsoft\exchange
server\Scripts>moveallreplicas.ps1 -ser
ver:"email2" -newserver:"email"
WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in
an
inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been
encountered:
WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid
values are:
Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase),
digits
from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or
~. One or
more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them
should be
preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters.
Unicode
characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but
they will be
mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is
generated
from such an alias.
WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in
an
inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been
encountered:
WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid
values are:
Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase),
digits
from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or
~. One or
more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them
should be
preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters.
Unicode
characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but
they will be
mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is
generated
from such an alias.
<end of output - I didn't copy it twice - this is the real output!>

So what hurculean feat do I need to do to get rid ot the replicas
and get this ()*&()*& server system off my network and out of my AD
structure?















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