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Trying to remove a Public Folder Store

I am growing increasing frustrated trying to remove a Public Folder Store on an Exchange 2007 mailbox server I am trying to decommission. There are no mailboxes on this server and I want to simply uninstall Exchange. When I execute the PS command get-PublicFolderStatistics, I get back 4 Public Folders which are below:

global events
Internal
Default
Exchange V1

I can't find replicas on this server anywhere!! I used PFAdmin and searched and searched but I can't find a replica for these folders on this server. What does the moveallreplicas.ps1 command do? Will this get rid of them. I found other posts on the Internet with admins in the same boat I am in. A couple just went into ADSIEdit and deleted the Public Folder Store. Is this a viable solution?

rakeshmiglani

if the PF store is no longer required then it can be deleted via adsiedit.msc
just be sure of what object you are deleting via adsiedit.msc

AmityNA

If you are decomissioning it and uninstalling exchange I would see no hurt in deleating the public folder store with adsIEdit

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ASKER

OK, I am down to two folders. I got rid of most of the System Folders I mentioned. I have two left with zero content in them. When I run the command get-PublicFolderStatistics |FL, in the details, the setting for IsDeletePending is set to true. How long does it take to remove this folder? Is there anything to speed up the process? Is there a command to remove a single replica in the powershell?

AmityNA

Has it resolved itself or is it still running?

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ASKER

I have one replica left that won't go away. Its marked for deletion and has zero content but it insists on hanging around. I can't remove the store while this folder is still there.

AmityNA

Have you tried rebooting sorry for the delay in the response

osiexchange

ASKER

Yes. Rebooted several times. I know these folders can hang around for days until Exchange decides to remove them. I just didn't want to wait that long.

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ASKER

OK. Thanks for you help on this.