As part of our migration from E2k7 to 2013, we are removing public folders, rather than migrating. I've already migrated the last content out (remaining calendars to sharepoint) many months ago. 2007 is SP3 RU12 and 2013 is CU3. Besides moving just a few more devices that are routing through the old connector, this is the last thing to do before the uninstall.
So, I'm reading through docs to remove the last PF database from 2007, and one of the steps they mention is to make sure all of the mailbox databases don't point there. I've noticed all of my new 2013 mailbox databases have a value for PublicFolderDatabase that points to the old server, and it does load the old hierarchy in our Outlook 2010 clients (part of why I need to get rid of it). I tested this morning, and if I simply dismount the PF database, the clients still show the reference, and get an error if you try to expand it in Outlook. The docs all talk about associating databases with another PF database http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc164367(EXCHG.80).aspx , but the section about deleting the last database doesn't mention this. Will the removal of the database itself update the values on all the mailbox dbs to a null value? I tried running a powershell command to null the value on a 2013 database, but I get an error-not sure if I'm doing this wrong? [cid:[email protected]] I've also found a few posts for 2007 about using adsiedit to remove the object (http://blog.dargel.at/2012/01/19/remove-public-folder-using-adsiedit/), but those don't seem to exist for 2013. I see the mailbox databases in the same area the 2010 servers reference them, but no PFs. All of the documentation talks about how to migrate the PFs, but we don't want to do that. What am I missing here? Thanks, Bonnie
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