Public folders - 2003 to 2003

[bobsa32]

Hi,

I have migrated an exchange 2003 infrastructure to new virtual servers and new exchange servers (still 2003). There is a plan in place to do a 2003 - 2010 upgrade later this year. I have an issue though, I have used pfmigrate to replicate and re-home the public folders, when I dismount the old public folder database everyone loses connection to the public folders as they still seem to be pointing at the old server.

I have checked replication and it seems to be in sync, also the old server is saying it doesn't hold any replicas, any ideas to help me out?

Thanks

 

[ntinlin]

And by re-homed you mean you have updated the public folder entry on the mailbox databases?

If you haven't then the clients will still be trying to connect to the old PF store and getting proxied to the new one.

Neill

 

[ShackDaddy]

If you merely dismount the old database, you will make it inaccessible and user connections that are proxied from it will break.

If you have really migrated all replicas off of it (PF Replicas folder should be empty), you can right-click Delete that database and in the process of deleting it, it will then ask you if you want to transfer its important roles to another public folder database, and you should say YES. Once you've done that, you can delete the PF database on that server and it won't cause any outages for you.

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net
TrainSignal.com