Exchange 2003-07 migration gone wrong

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Hi,

I have just tried the command:

moveallreplicas.ps1 -server serverb - newserver servera

Server a is older 2003 one, serverb is the new 2007 one.

I got the following error back:

WARNING: Object servera\First Storage Group\Public Folder Store (servera) has
been corrupted and it is in an inconsistent state. The following validation
errors have occurred:
WARNING: ReplicationMessageSize(99999999KB) is out of range: [1KB,2097151KB].
WARNING: Object servera\First Storage Group\Public Folder Store (servera) has
been corrupted and it is in an inconsistent state. The following validation
errors have occurred:
WARNING: ReplicationMessageSize(99999999KB) is out of range: [1KB,2097151KB].
[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts>

I have checked, and so far as I can see the public folders on servera are visible and working...

Any thoughts?

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Scratch that, I realised what that was and fixed it.

I set the message limit for replication to 999999999 and it let me, however I have changed it to 2097151 and the above command now appears to work, although I'll have to wait until it replicates again.

I'm sure I have already tried the moveallreplicas command but it didn't appear to do anything for the situation.

Any further ideas?

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First command showed only

IPM_SUBTREE

Second command listed the 6 system folders that I mentioned earlier.

I have now tried the move all replicas from the ESM 2k3 which again it seemed to be happy with.

When I look in folder instances there is only the 6 system folders, no other data folders seem to have ever made it onto this server.

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Thanks for that.

I'm in the now slow process of backing up public folders just in case it all goes horribly wrong before I delve into the ADSIedit bit.

Fairly sure the OAB is coming from 2003 server. Any way to be sure?

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OK thanks.

One other thing, in the mailbox store on the 2007 server there are a number of disconnected mailboxes. These were the last of the ones that I moved back to the 2003 server.

If I try to purge them it says they have already been reconnected, which techincally they have been on the 2003 server but I can't seem to get rid of them.

Odd thing is, the other mailboxes that were moved back went fine its just these few that are left. The only thing I can think of is that these are users who would have logged into their mailboxes while they were on the new server.

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OK, thanks for all your help so far.

The situation now is that the new 2007 exchange server is now uninstalled cleanly after removing the public folder store and routing connectors between the 2 servers.

It appears that the old server is still generating thousands of messages from servera-IS@domain.co.uk to PublicFolderDatabase@domain.co.uk

At the moment these eventually end up in the SMTP queue for sending outbound causing it to completely clog.

I am combating this by scheduling the queue not to run until 11pm and in the mean time I am periodically clearing the queues of all messages.

What I need to know is, will these messages eventually stop being generated or will the public folders keep trying to replicate with nothing?

Any advise would be very much appreciated.

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According to the 2003 ESM there are no replicas now. both of these address' are 2003 I believe.

the @domain.co.uk is the same for both servers. These used to grow in the queue between the 2 servers but now its going to the SMTP queue, I think because its the only outbound one there is.

I'm hoping that once each item (of which there are many thousands) has sent this message, the message storm will die away and I can then re-enable the SMTP queue as normal.

What I don't know is what I do if this is not going to happen and the public folders just keep on trying to replicate forever.

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both those commands run on the old server indicte no public folder database present

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Just gives an error saying that server is 2003

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Looking in the queue they date back to 2nd September. I'll clear the queue and see if the date/time stamps are moving on. If they are I guess its just a waiting game until they are all processed through.

In the 2003 EMS under Public Folder Store/Replication Status it shows no replicas. I think this is normal as I have looked on another 2003 server I have access to in a different client and it looks the same.

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Finally its fixed.

The messages eventually stopped appearing and on deleting them and sorting the SMTP connector back to normal its all fixed.

Thanks to endital1097 for your assistance through all this. Although no one post gave the final answer they were all helpful and I'll try and find a way of showing that.

Cheers

Steve