Hello,

I am on my 2007 box trying to remove it and running the commands to remove any 
folders and system folders I get

"There is no existing PublicFolder that matches the following Identity: '\'. 
Please make sure that you specified the correct PublicFolder Identity and that 
you have the necessary permissions to view PublicFolder.
At line:1 char :17"

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2621350 says to do it on the 2010 box, 
read remote powershell I think (I am on 2013 no 2010 here) and I get this error 
on  there with the following command:

Get-PublicFolder "\" -Recurse | Remove-PublicFolder -Confirm:$False 
-ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue -Server oldservername.

No active public folder mailboxes were found. This happens when no public 
folder mailboxes are provisioned or they are
provisioned in 'HoldForMigration' mode. If you're not currently performing a 
migration, create a public folder mailbox.

I have found some other articles about a legacy attribute not set  in AD and 
saying to mail disable the account I am trying to run the commands with. I have 
done that and no joy, restarted the IS on the old box too.  Problem is too that 
a lot of these articles indicate another problem with this error is using the 
EMC to view the folders and getting the error above in the GUI. I can use the 
GUI to look at the default and system folders and they are just blank. We don't 
have any PF's (only had one for BES) but I presume there would be system 
folders still?  Not sure about just trying to delete the DB as I am not sure 
what may linger behind in AD even though I have no intention of ever using 
them; my PF efficacy is not up to par I'm afraid.


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