The server you removed had Public Folders on it. Now the users (Outlook) are still trying to access that as their PF server. The fix is to either recreate all profiles or bring another box up with that same name then have everyone in the site hit the PF's so it redirects the client to the new PF server. A nice link sent out to all will work great.
Tom Mezyk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Removing the first server...possible stupid question We recently did the same thing (remove the first server from a site) and several users were hit by delays in Outlook. On inspecting the MAPI profile registry sections of the affected client machines, we discovered more than one reference to the removed server. This was the result of something we did to our Outlook configuration, as opposed to any fault with Exchange or Outlook. (Before firing up the registry editor, check an affected user's Control Panel->Mail settings to see if there are any service entries that refer Panel->to the old box.) FWIW, you could check an affected machine's registry under : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Windows Messaging Subsystem\ Profiles\ MS Exchange Settings (or whatever the user's mapi profile is called) for any entries that refer to the old server. If you use REGEDIT.EXE, you can easily search for the server's name. We ended up deleting some of the registry keys because they referred to a "default" mailbox (part of a ghost image configuration) on the removed server. After deleting these particular subkeys the affected machines seemed to recover. Please be careful if you do see anything and decide to delete - BACKUP THE REGISTRY FIRST. Of course, this may have nothing to do with your problem(!) Cheers, Loftus. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 April 2002 16:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Removing the first server...possible stupid question What happened? Did I all of a sudden wind up on everyone's ::Plonk!:: list? Let me know if you have any insights please. Jim Blunt -----Original Message----- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Stupid Question...Removing the first server This particular server is Exchange 5.5 Sp1, NT 4.0 SP5. The rest of the site is Ex5.5, SP4 / Win2k, SP2. I have one server in my site that isn't doing anything. It is one that was installed before I took over the admin duties. It's a converted PC, so we're going to remove it from the site and shut it down. I have followed Q152959 for removing the first server in the site. I have also reviewed all the "gotcha's!" listed in Q189286. 1) The bridgehead server duties have been migrated over to another server. 2) The public folders have all been rehomed to another server. 3) There are no mailboxes on this server. 4) The distribution lists are all set to expand on a different server. 5) There are no replicas of the Free/Busy information on this server 6) There is no replica of the OAB on the server 7) There are no organizational forms on the server 8) Routing calculation has been moved to another server 9) There are no connectors of any kind on this server 10)When I look at the "Instances" tab of the Public store on this server, the only public folder left on this server is called "Eventconfig_servername". Yet, when I go to the "Age Limits" tab, there is another folder listed there called "Nntp Control Folder", which I can't find anywhere else. The exchange databases that exist on this server are as follows: \\servername\c$\exchsrvr\dsadata\dir.edb - 105 mb \\servername\c$\exchsrvr\dsadata\temp.edb - 1 mb \\servername\c$\exchsrvr\mdbdata\tmp.edb - 7 mb \\servername\e$\exchsrvr\mdbdata\pub.edb - 162 mb \\servername\e$\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv.edb - 13 mb None of them have been modified since 02/26/02 Even with nothing on this server, I am still getting 5 to 10 people per day logging on to the Public Store. Is this normal? What are these people logging on to? A replica of the public folders? Should I?: 1) Stop all the Exchange services and leave it for a week 2) Restart the services 3) Remove the server from the site 4) Leave the server up for a day or two 5) Turn it off. I stopped all the services on this server for the weekend, about a month and a half ago, thinking that nobody would holler. When I did that, I had whole bunches of people complaining about how slow their Outlook clients were. As soon as I started everything back up, things were fine. What am I missing? 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