Public Folders Replicas in 2003 required

[theravager]

Morning,

Just a quick one as I've never really done much in the public folder space.

Migrated just about everything to a 2007 environment thought there a few accounts remaining on 2003 still.

Is there any requirements around keeping a 2003 public folder replica or is it fine to just axe it and keep the 2007 replica ones only.

I am assuming all the 2003 and 2007 outlook clients will be happy with just 2007 only, but not sure about the couple of 2003 mailboxes remaining on the 2003 exchange server.

 

[58sniper]

You need a Public Folder for Free/Busy info if you have clients using legacy versions of Outlook (2003 or earlier). If all clients are using Outlook 2007 or later, you don't need Public Folders.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[theravager]

Thanks pat, was pretty aware of that.

Wasn't sure if outlook 2003 clients or people with 2003 mailbox's were able to use public folders with just a 2007 server holding them or if a public folder replica had to be on a 2003 exchange server.

 

[58sniper]

As long as their mailbox database has a PF store assigned, that's fine.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/