Re: Removing Empty, but Replicated Public Folders

Is this a mixed organization? You do have Exchange 2003 folders, right?
What do you see if you right-click Public Folders and select to view the
System 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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Ed, see screen shot of ESM here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14900074@N02/1551630959/



"Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is *nothing* there. Yet E2K7 says it won't delete because it claims
there are replicas!

E2K7 is just not ready for prime time, IMHO.

"Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Using Exchange 2003 System Manager, under the Administrative Group,
Folders object, you should see the hierarchy of the public folders in
your Exchange organization, not under the server or database objects.
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You said:
"From Exchange 2003 ESM, remove the Exchange 2003 server replicas of
the
Exchange 2007 folders"

Exactly where? When I go to the E2K7 Server's Public Folder Database,
Public Folder Instances, it will not let me remove the replicas -
period. I see no other place where I can even have an option to remove
the replicas. Do you?

"Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Inline
--
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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