I'm sympathetic to your plight. PF replication has always been a black box for which many of us have pleaded for more transparency.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert Duro Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:46 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: LCR vs Replication I don't remember, frankly, it was quite a while ago. But I did the migration by the book and it was successful and smooth. There were no problems at all until I tried to LCR the PF database and couldn't because there were some folders that were still set to replicate with the old 03 servers -- I must have missed them. When I tried to correct that, something broke, and some folders' content vanished. I'm trying to figure out why that breaking occurred -- I'm reasonably sure I didn't do anything to cause those deletions. These were operations that I had done hundreds of times before with never a hickup. Even on the exact same pair of servers. So what was different this time? The only thing I can think of is that maybe during the weeks that the 03 server was turned off but not removed from AD, the 07 server kept trying to unsuccessfully replicate those few folders, and that put a strain on the replication process. Anyway the damage has been repaired by restoring from backup, and the PF situation is very nearly stabilized by now. I'd just like to figure out what happened and how to prevent it -- I'm allergic to heart attacks ;o) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Hobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:47 AM Subject: RE: LCR vs Replication > It sounds a sensible approach to me; it's what I did on one of my recent > projects, i.e. leave the old server for a week before decommission. > > Can you describe how you migrated the public folders to E2K7? Did you use > the Move All Replicas option, for example? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert > Duro > Sent: 13 May 2008 16:09 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: LCR vs Replication > > Thank you, and I've been working on that, believe me. > Do you have any thoughts on the wisdom of not killing off the old server > after everything was transferred to the new one? I thought I was being > cautious, but it seems to have been a mistake. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 12:05 PM > Subject: RE: LCR vs Replication > > >> You first want to figure out why the clients can't use the public folders >> on >> the Exchange 2007 server. That's your problem and why you can't remove >> the >> replicas from the Exchange 2003 server. I can't tell you why you're >> having >> that problem, but that's where you're going to have to start. >> >> Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP >> Freelance E-Mail Philosopher >> Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert >> Duro >> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:49 AM >> To: Exchange Discussions >> Subject: LCR vs Replication >> >> Single Exchange 07 server on Win Server 03. >> >> Offline (but not uninstalled) Exchange 03 on Win Server 03. >> >> I've been running Local Continuous Replication on the mailbox databases >> for >> a while now, but when I try to LCR the Public Folder database, it fails >> saying that it can't do that while the folders are in replication mode. >> >> So I take off replication, but then the folders are no longer accessible >> from Outlook. The DB is still there, but invisible to Outlook. >> >> Then I have bring the old server back online and do replication with both >> servers. I'm caught in a vicious circle where I can't maximize the new >> server and I can't get rid of the old one. >> >> Did I make a mistake in not removing the old Exchange 03 as soon as the >> new >> one was up and running? 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