Migration to modern public folders
Migrations tend to be complex affairs. Migration from old-style to modern public folders is unlikely to be simple for many organizations, especially when the hierarchy is large. It is a one-time cutover in that after you perform the switchover to modern public folders, it is difficult if not impossible to revert without losing data because no synchronization facilities exist between one type of public folders and the other.
Microsoft includes a set of scripts with Exchange 2013 to assist in the migration of content from public folder databases. It has also documented an approach to the migration that you can read at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150486.aspx. This is a useful framework on which to ...
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