Don't want to be a pest, just curious if anyone can comment on the below
scenario. It boils down to: Can I move the AD objects without impacting the
underlying services? Do Public Folders or any of the other Exchange resources
care about where the objects exist in AD?
Thanks,
Geoff
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This is more of an Active Directory question, but it relates directly to the
Exchange objects.
For whatever reason, we have two 'Microsoft Exchange System Objects'
containers. One in the root of the domain, another one level down in another
Organizational Unit, for example 'LegacyStuff'.
CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=domain,DC=com
and
OU=LegacyStuff,CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=domain,DC=com
The container under LegacyStuff seems to be where all the Public folder objects
live. Dozens of globalevents, internal, and OWAScratchPad objects. The
container in the root of the domain only contains SystemMailbox{GUID} objects
and the 'Exchange Install Domain Servers' group.
This was a 2003 to 2010 "move". It was not a migration according to my coworker
who was here at the time-they did a fresh 2010 install and migrated mailboxes.
My assumption is prior to installing Exchange 2010 someone moved the original
container into another OU and let the Exchange 2010 install recreate the root
container.
My goal is to consolidate these objects under the root container and delete the
other container and its parent 'LegacyStuff' OU. However, I don't want to break
these existing objects. I can't find anything online about any impact of moving
these objects, so I'm reaching out to some of the experts on this list. Though
it may not really clarify the issue I am attaching a sanitized screenshot.
Thank you in advance for any help.
-Geoff
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