Greetings.
I have a weird problem that I just can't explain...
We recently migrated everything over from Exch2003 to 2007 .. all went pretty much as planned. I didn't have a lot of surprises.
Public folders took a while to replicate, but they replicated in time and i was able to shut the old 2003 server down.
Being a paranoid type of admin, i left the old server alone and just let the new server chug away. and all has been fine for about a month now.
But at 3:45am last night, the public folders just disappeared from view in Outlook.
When i checked the server at the EMC - all the public folders were there - they just weren't being published to outlook.
Here's what i did:
First thing I did was rebooted the server. I had some outstanding VSS Writer issues that required a reboot as incremental backups were failing... So i figured it would be best to reboot .. maybe it'd be related... i don't know how - but you never know.
after the reboot - vss writer problems were fixed but public folders were still not being shown in Outlook.
I checked the logs. The only anomaly was that the System Attendant was complaining that the server's computer account was NOT in the Exchange Server Security Group. Following a KB by microsoft... i Removed the server entry out of the Exchange Server Group - and re-added it. Then i re-spun the SA -and that got rid of that error.
Still no Public Folders.
In the end, I ramped up the old server .. and started a full replication process all over again both ways.. and had to manually reset all permissions to the public folders in 2003 and then replicated those permission over before any of the folders were published back into Outlook..
Does anyone have any explanation as to why something like this would happen? So I can prevent it from happening again.
In time i want to reuse the old server as a file server .. i dont' want it collecting dust waiting for a disaster to happen... Tho' i'm patting myself on the back right now for not giving into the bosses prompting to turf the old server and redeploy it. IT totally saved my butt ...
AlRo
System Administrator
Ottawa, Canada.
I have a weird problem that I just can't explain...
We recently migrated everything over from Exch2003 to 2007 .. all went pretty much as planned. I didn't have a lot of surprises.
Public folders took a while to replicate, but they replicated in time and i was able to shut the old 2003 server down.
Being a paranoid type of admin, i left the old server alone and just let the new server chug away. and all has been fine for about a month now.
But at 3:45am last night, the public folders just disappeared from view in Outlook.
When i checked the server at the EMC - all the public folders were there - they just weren't being published to outlook.
Here's what i did:
First thing I did was rebooted the server. I had some outstanding VSS Writer issues that required a reboot as incremental backups were failing... So i figured it would be best to reboot .. maybe it'd be related... i don't know how - but you never know.
after the reboot - vss writer problems were fixed but public folders were still not being shown in Outlook.
I checked the logs. The only anomaly was that the System Attendant was complaining that the server's computer account was NOT in the Exchange Server Security Group. Following a KB by microsoft... i Removed the server entry out of the Exchange Server Group - and re-added it. Then i re-spun the SA -and that got rid of that error.
Still no Public Folders.
In the end, I ramped up the old server .. and started a full replication process all over again both ways.. and had to manually reset all permissions to the public folders in 2003 and then replicated those permission over before any of the folders were published back into Outlook..
Does anyone have any explanation as to why something like this would happen? So I can prevent it from happening again.
In time i want to reuse the old server as a file server .. i dont' want it collecting dust waiting for a disaster to happen... Tho' i'm patting myself on the back right now for not giving into the bosses prompting to turf the old server and redeploy it. IT totally saved my butt ...
AlRo
System Administrator
Ottawa, Canada.
