Re: Removing administrative group

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:27:39 -0600

Since the ag will be gone, I would change the legacyexchangedn of the users.

Admodify can be used to do this in bulk
it is available at
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/pss/Tools/Exchange%20Support%20Tools/admodify

You'll need to then force the clients to reload their free/busy they need to
accept a meeting request or run outlook /cleanfreebusy

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"Darren Rosenfield" <drosenfield@collierscre.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Alan
>
> thanks for your reply, should i be changing the legacyexchangedn to
> match the ou they have moved to? or will a replica of the old folder
> in the new ag make do?
>
> regards
>
> Darren
>
> "Alan Williams [MSFT]" <alanew@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:<e#0acJOyEHA.3320@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
>> The name of the folder the user uses is determined by the lgacyexchangedn
>> attribute of the user.  You'll want to put a replica of this folder from 
>> the
>> old server/administrative group on the new server if the legacyexchangedn 
>> of
>> the user has not changed. Also the sitefolderserver attribute of the
>> administrative group directs the user to the server for free/busy and
>> offline address books.  Take a look at this article for how to set it to 
>> the
>> proper server.
>>
>> 284200 Schedule+ Free/Busy System Folder Is Missing
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=284200
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan Williams
>> Microsoft Exchange Support
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>> "Darren Rosenfield" <drosenfield@collierscre.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:4c804ad6.0410140558.7d0556ea@posting.google.com...
>> >i would like to remove an ag from my organisation, as i need to
>> > reclaim the hardware.
>> >
>> > i have followed the procedures for removing servers
>> >
>> > moved all mailboxes and services, removed all public folders and any
>> > replicas of folders on this server from all other servers.
>> >
>> > thought all was ready to go, until i shut down all services
>> >
>> > then all users that were hosted on this server started getting errors
>> > about free/busy info
>> >
>> > i was under the impression that a user updates the free/busy folder
>> > that they are hosted on. is there a setting or something in the client
>> > that holds the location?
>> >
>> > have tried rebuilding profile, also tried /cleanfreebusy but this
>> > wouldnt work as the "requesting data from exchange server" box just
>> > kept looking for the old host.
>> >
>> > all was not well until i restarted the services on the old box.
>> >
>> > users have been moved to a new server in a new admin group, whats the
>> > link to the old box?
>> >
>> > Any idea's?
>> >
>> > regards 

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