Migrating Public Folders from (SBS) Exchange 2003 to (SBS) Exchange 2011 never completes
We are doing a migration from Exchange 2003 (SBS 2003) to Exchange 2011 (SBS 2011) and everything has gone swimmingly other than migrating the public folders.
We went into the admin console and set the public folder to move to the Exchange 2011 box.
The public folder instance directory is still showing objects in there on the Exchange 2003 box, meaning the migration didn't occur.
We're at a loss at why since there are no errors. It's been about 10 days, so plenty of time for the migration (which we know can be slow). These aren't huge public folders.
We went into the admin console and set the public folder to move to the Exchange 2011 box.
The public folder instance directory is still showing objects in there on the Exchange 2003 box, meaning the migration didn't occur.
We're at a loss at why since there are no errors. It's been about 10 days, so plenty of time for the migration (which we know can be slow). These aren't huge public folders.
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@dreamraghu - Have you done many SBS 03 to SBS 2011 mirations?
Yes, i did.
The procedure will applications for all exchange verions, whether it is SBS exchange or exchange servers.
The procedure will applications for all exchange verions, whether it is SBS exchange or exchange servers.
Okay - so why are you suggesting to not use moveallreplicas which is recommended in the MS migration article and then and then repeating comments that I have already made?
Yes, Thats the recomended step, but if we have lot fo public folders then when you use the moveallreplicas, you will see a huge mail strom that effect your e-mail flow and etc...
The best way is to add the replica of the new server and do a replication.
The best way is to add the replica of the new server and do a replication.
Well - it's never caused a problem for me and I have migrated dozens of SBS 03 to SBS 11 servers with hundreds of Public Folders on them :)
I mean, if you have lot of public folders with huge size then we will have that issues. If it small database size and soem public folders, there will not be any issues.
Mine is just a recomendations if you have public folder database with huge size.
Mine is just a recomendations if you have public folder database with huge size.
I haven't done any SBS migration but
This is what I did to migrate from e2k3 to e2010
Add public folder replicates
go to each public folder and force the replication.
This is what I did to migrate from e2k3 to e2010
Add public folder replicates
go to each public folder and force the replication.
The best thing is that, add the replica for few folders and once those are replicate, you can add different set of folders(stage by stage) and also set the replication type to URGENT and pf replication interval option to ALWAYS RUN.