Ex Svr 2010 Public Folder Replication stopped working...?

Hello.

Hoping someone can help.  My problem is now my 2 Exchange 2010 Servers Public folders are no longer replicating beginning 2/27 3/1. 

2 3 weeks ago, I removed my last 2003 Ex Svr and tried to follow the steps.  It worked with errors. 

So far, I confirmed the 2 servers Public Folders replicas were checkmarked. 

Next it tried to use ExFolders to see what was happening.  It crashed.  I saw the below article. 

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I opened ADSIEdit & connected to the Configuration partition. I deleted the empty CN=Servers container from the old administrative group in CN=Configuration,CN=Services,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=OrgName,CN=Administrative Group,CN=OldAdminGroupName . I ran ExFolders again & did not get an error.

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I went there and see the 2 admin groups I had in 2003 called NBO and BGZ and the new Exchange Administrative Group (abcd).  The NBO and BGZ group have no server in the Server container and the new admin group has my new 2010 servers.

My big question is can I delete the Servers Container in NBO and BGZ or should I delete the entire NBO and BGZ containers without it breaking something?

If deleting = OK, do I have to do anything after removal like restart a service...?

Thanks,
March 12th, 2015 1:58pm

Hi Tom,

Based on my experience, we need remove the Exchange 2003 Admin Group.

Following KB describes details method to remove Exchange 2003, for your reference:

How to remove Exchange Server 2003 from your computer

http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/833396

 

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March 12th, 2015 10:28pm

Thanks for the reply.

Using ADSI, both servers were removed from both ExSvr2003 Admin Groups Servers containers.

Do you think I can remove both ExSvr2003 Admin Groups and have no repercussions...?  I am just concerned about legacy issues...?

Thanks,

March 13th, 2015 9:31am

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your update.

And I say yes. We need to remove the Exchange 2003 objects.

More information for your reference:

After the last Exchange 2003 server has been removed from the Exchange 2010 organization, you can also remove the legacy Exchange Domain Servers and Exchange Enterprise Servers security groups.

Link: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg576862(v=exchg.141).aspx

 

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March 24th, 2015 10:00am

It is now all set.  I am glad I didn't remove the containers afterall

After checking the msExchOwningPFTree attribute and found PF Tree
is still under an administrative group which had E2K3 servers which
have been decommissioned - we updated it accordingly, forced replication and the public folders started to replicate.


April 7th, 2015 9:17am

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