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Exchange 2007 Public Folder Move or Removal

Well I goofed - I added a public folder store to the same exchange storage group and when I went to implement SCR said "No Can Do" since the mailbox database and the public folder database is in the same storage group. The public folders are on the prior 2003 Exchange servers and a second 2007 exchange server. (I did the console command to move the public folders over to the second exchange server and after that manually replicated the 2003 folders to the second 2007 server. I did NOT manually replicate the 2003 public folders to the primary/first Exchange 2007 box, but they are listed there. When I delete any folder from the Exchange 2007 box it deletes it from all the boxes. I am trying to AVOID copying the public folders to a local folder, deleting all the public folders and then deleting the public folder store then moving them back to a new public folder store (since that will likely require reassigning permissions to each folder and taking the folders offline.) So what I am looking for is a method to
A: remove the public folders from only the primary 2007 server (found these commands on EE - Get-PublicFolder -Server HNLEX04 "\" -Recurse -ResultSize:Unlimited Remove-PublicFolder -Server HNLEX04 -Recurse -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue

Get-PublicFolder -Server HNLEX04 "\Non_Ipm_Subtree" -Recurse -ResultSize:Unlimited Remove-PublicFolder -Server HNLEX04 -Recurse -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue
B: Find a way to move the public folder database to another storage group on the same server (can't have 2 public folder databases on the server at the same time.)

Suraj

On Exchange 2007 on mailbox server role server can have only one pubic folder store. This is by design.

Thanks,
x-sam

sfeder11554

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Yes I understand that - to simplify the questions:

Will the commands I put in the question above remove the public folder from only the server specified or will it carry through to the other servers by removing it on the one?

Although you can only have 1 public folder database is there a method to create another storage container and move that database to the new container (as opposed to just changing the path)?

Thanks.

Suraj

Instead you could perform the move all replicas to move the replica off the current server and then you can remove the public folder store.

If you perform the above command it would mark the public folders to be deleted and would delete all the public folders from both the server.

Thanks,
x-sam

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