Comments on: How to Remove an Exchange 2010 Public Folder Database

By: dennis

dennis — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:22:29 +0000

Hello,
I’m having a difficult time moving all Exchange functions to a 2010 sp3 box from a 2010 that’s not even sp1. I can’t remove Public folder replica’s and I’m not sure it’s even needed as we don’t use Public Folders. I just want to make sure our GAL, OAB and all address lists are moved. What’s worse is no matter what I try, I can’t get mail to stop going to the old server. It’s not a source server on the SMTP send connector and all of it’s receive connectors are disabled. Yet, messages find their way into the old Exchange queue so I have to add it to the Send Connector to push out email.
Let me know if this is something you can fix and what your rate would be.

By: Bogdan NEMTANU

Bogdan NEMTANU — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:30:59 +0000

In reply to Tim Aitken. This worked for me. Thanks.

By: Jason Young

Jason Young — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:26:41 +0000

In reply to Tim Aitken. Many thanks I have been trying to clean up for the mess for days.

By: Kr Donchev

Kr Donchev — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:56:57 +0000

In reply to Satish Patel. That's really works and no need ADSI

By: guy

guy — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:06:34 +0000

In reply to Tim Aitken. Thanks Fixed it for me too

By: Straland

Straland — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:14:20 +0000

In reply to Sean. Awesome, it worked great

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 21:28:54 +0000

In reply to Tvuil. Excellent solution!!

By: Louis Reedijk

Louis Reedijk — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:25:31 +0000

In reply to Tvuil. EPIC working like a charm :) we moved completely to office365, so there was no need to keep anything. But I would like a clean un-install of Exchange :)

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 22:54:24 +0000

To add to the above issue. A deletion of a folder on PFServe2 is replicated to PFServer1, which is a huge issue, obviously.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 22:52:57 +0000

Regardless of how the replicas are defined in our Exchange 2010 environment, a folder on PFServer1 gets replicated to PFServer2. If a new folder is created on PFServer1, and PFServer1 is the only replica listed, it will still show up onPFServer2, and vice versa. If i change replica members on PFServer1, those changes are replicated back to PFServer2. the PF’s are identical for folders and content on PFServer1 and PFServer2.

Does the MoveAllReplicas.ps1 change those properties somehow? All I want to do is delete a DAG with 3 servers, one of which contains PFServer2.