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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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9.2. Rehoming Public Folders

Problem

You want to move a folder from one server to another.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Launch the Exchange System Manager (Exchange System Manager.msc).

  2. In the left pane, expand the appropriate Administrative Groups container.

  3. Expand the Folders and Public Folders nodes.

  4. Right-click the folder you want to rehome and select Properties.

  5. Switch to the Replication tab.

  6. Click the Add button; when the Select a Public Store dialog box appears, select the server where you want the new replica to be housed, and click OK.

  7. Click OK.

  8. Wait for the public folder content to replicate. The GUI doesn't show any information about replication progress, except that a synchronized folder will be shown as "In Sync" on the Replication tab of the public folder's properties dialog box. Recipe Recipe 9.4 may help.

  9. Verify that the folder replica has appeared in the folder list of the target server.

  10. Optionally, if you want to remove the original replica, repeat steps 2-5, select the original replica, and click Delete.

Using a command-line interface

  1. Get the PFAdmin tool and install it on a machine where you have a MAPI profile (either created by Outlook or by a profile tool like profgen). The account you use to log on must have Exchange Administrator privileges on the routing group that contains the source and target servers.

  2. Use the REHOME option with PFAdmin. You must specify the profile name, the folder name (or ALL if you want to rehome all folders), and the target server ...

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