An OAB has a specific generation server tied to it. You shouldn't be able to remove the Exchange 2003 server if you haven't rehomed any OABs hosted on that server. If you removed the server manually, you can move-offlineaddressbook from the Exchange Management Shell (and probably from the Exchange Management Console as well).
________________________________ From: Alex Fontana [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Major goof when migrating OAB to E2K7 The sitefolderserver will be moved (or changed in AD) to your Ex2007 server once you remove the public folder database from the last ex2003 database; you'll be pompted when you go to delete the pf db. At that time you will need to restart the SA on the Ex2007 public folder server for the change to take affect. As for the offlineoabserver, I believe so, but I'm not 100% sure. I can check on this a bit later and confirm...unless someone jumps in before me. also see this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288905.aspx -alex On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Russ Patterson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We didnt get any events 9331 or 9335 overnight, so I'm knocking-on-wood hoping we're good. Test mailboxes showed up in the OAB as well. Anybody feel like answering : Shouldn't ADSIEdit show these two attributes as the same server? :: offlineabserver sitefolderserver - one is still the old, E2k3 server that we want to retire, and the other is set to the " troubled " E2k7 server we've been talking about. Thanks All! On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Russ Patterson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Alex - thanks for taking this on. BTW, the errors are from the 07 srvr (in that server name in the eventID the 03 is the rack number and the 32 is the row number) We think the replicas were finished today after "update-OfflineAddressBook" and a "Update-FileDistributionService" were issued. A few hours after they were issued, we saw the mailboxes we had been missing in the OAB. We've created another test account to see if it appears during the regularly scheduled OAB build at 5 am tomorrow. (Plus, we'll be checking for the event I listed at the beginning of this thread. I'll keep you posted. Again - Thanks! My next question may well be: Shouldn't ADSIEdit show these two attributes as the same server? :: offlineabserver sitefolderserver - one is still the old, E2k3 server that we want to retire, and the other is set to the " troubled " E2k7 server we've been talking about. Russ On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Alex Fontana <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Are the events below from the 03 or 07 server? You've set up replicas, but have they actually replicated over yet? You can try checking via ESM if the '07 server has the instances of the OAB. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Russ Patterson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi - I think I just made the biggest mistake I've ever done in Exchange. When I moved OAB generation from E2k3 to E2k7, I pointed to an E2k7 server that did not have a Public Folder store. Geesh..... I've since created one, and used PFDAVAdmin to set up replication, but I'm still having lots of issues with the System Folders. Main issue is no OAB getting created with these two errors: Log Name: Application Source: MSExchangeSA Date: 7/1/2009 10:14:53 AM Event ID: 9331 Task Category: OAL Generator Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: CLTEXCH0332.ds1.ltcorp.tree Description: OALGen encountered error 80070005 (internal ID 50103b4) accessing the public folder store while generating the offline address list for address list '/'. - Default Offline Address List Log Name: Application Source: MSExchangeSA Date: 7/1/2009 10:14:53 AM Event ID: 9335 Task Category: OAL Generator Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: CLTEXCH0332.ds1.ltcorp.tree Description: OALGen encountered error 80070005 while cleaning the offline address list public folders under /o=LendingTree/cn=addrlists/cn=oabs/cn=Default Offline Address List. Please make sure the public folder store is mounted and replicas exist of the offline address list folders. No offline address lists have been generated. Please check the event log for more information. - Default Offline Address List I've turned up logging for MSExchangeSA\OAL Generator to medium, those are the only errors given. Any suggestions? It's easy to dismount the PF store (which I've done,) but there are end-users mailboxes on this server, so I could only restart the IS at night. I also see that the siteFolderServer attribute in ADSIEdit still points to our E2k3 server. Help greatly appreciated.
