Removing/deleting newly created Public Folders

[ITSurvivor]

Greetings all,

I am new to Exchange 2010 DAG and currently have a DAG with 4 mailboxes and 3 Public Folders. I came on board the company a bit ago and started to see that the transaction logs for the Public Folders have not been removed since April of 2013, so the diskspace has slowly been eaten up. Since I am new to DAG, I thought that I needed to create a new Public Folders for the 4 mailbox for replication like the mailboxes, but when I tried to create it, it passed the first test but failed when it tried to Mount the folder. I would like to delete/remove the Public Folder and start again. Apologies for not taking a print shot of the error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We are on service pack 2.

Thanks all,

Richard

 

[ShackDaddy]

It's normal for the newly created databases to fail to mount at first, so I'd just try mounting it later. Public folders cannot be replicated in a DAG, only a mailbox database. To replicate public folder data, you just create replicas within the Public Folder Management console, assuming you have at least two public folder databases in your environment, one on each mailbox server.

On the logs, it's easy to resolve that: simple dismount the database, then delete the logs, then remount it. When you dismount the database it checks and makes sure that there is no data in the logs that needs to be in the database. That effectively removes the dependency on those logs.

What kind of backups are you doing on your Exchange server?

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net