I have posted before about my issue with several public folders not getting replicated (or not flipping the bit to indicate they have replicated perhaps?) properly from my old server to my new server as I try to complete a much too elongated ECMSM server upgrade. I have only gotten responses from other people with the same problem asking if I had fixed it yet. Since I haven't fixed it yet I thought I would post again with the further info I have developed and ask again for advice on solving or working around this problem.
I have about 1/4 of the public folders in the site showing up as "local modified" on OldServer (Exch5.5 on NT4) but "In Sync" on NewServer (Exch5.5 on Win2k) regardless of which server I checked. All folders were re-homed to NewServer. The other 3/4 of the public folders had shown as "In Sync" on both servers so their replicas were removed from OldServer. In most cases there is no last received time listed for the folder replication status for the problem folders. When there is, it is the date that the NewServer replica was created. Both servers are in the same organization and site. NewServer was installed new into the existing site and most of the folders replicated without issue. I believe the inital cause of the problem was attempting to delete OldServer from the site before all the replicas had propogated properly but I am not sure. I have verified that replication appears to be working correctly for new messages at least. I put a message into three of the folders showing "Local Modified" for OldServer and for each one the item count incremented first on NewServer and then after a wait for the replication interval (currently set to 'always' but setting specific times had no affect on my main problem nor did increasing the urgency or size limit of replication messages) incremented the item count on OldServer's replica. I have hunted and hunted but I can't find any replication messages hung up anywhere. I'm almost to the point of just shutting down the services on OldServer and waiting for the screams. Unfortunately I can't since it is also a print server for a printer I don't appear to be able to move elsewhere. Even if I could I'd be happier about doing that if I could find a way to export the contents of OldServer's public folder database to a pst file so I could recover stuff if necessary. I'm sure there is a way but I'm not finding it. I'm sure it's me using the wrong search terms but knowing that doesn't help. If I can't find any info I guess I will just create myself a temporary mailbox on OldServer, isolate it from the network for a while and log into that mailbox and thus in theory only those public folders and do a brute force copy to pst. Many thanks for any help, pointers, links, "you idjit read thus and such" messages, Ronni _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
