Hello, I just got to head down this road again recently with an E2K->E2K3 migration. Some notes of what I experienced:
-I Used PFMigrate this time. It'll do the System folders too. I don't recall this tool back in 2000 when we went 5.5 -> E2K. -From E2K -> E2K3, 150 of 1300 folders were not synched completely 48 hours later (both servers on same Gigabit switch). 50 of those were > +- 3 messages. 1 week later this improved to only 20 PFs having any mismatch at all. With 5.5->E2K it never improved after the first 48 hours. I lost "Per-User read" on all the PFs, which is a real bummer for lists like this one. -From E2K3 -> E2K3 (the first move was to a temp server to free up hardware for the final production server), "Per-User read" CAME BACK!!! And I didn't use the original E2K server as the source, I used the E2K3 server that had "lost" the Per-User read in the first place. (Yes, I was using the same account, and profile to check Email, checked in OWA too.) Only 2 folders came up > +-3 messages, and only 11 had any mismatch at all after 24 hours. Nice to see something improve. Peculiar to us: PFMIGRATE showed "0" PFs when the GC option was turned off on the Email servers "favorite" DC. Many reboots on all Email servers and DCs to see if that would fix things, but it didn't. Looking through Google and MSKB there can be a variety of reasons why PFMigrate will only show "0" PFs, but ours turned out to be because of this. Single Domain forest, 3 DCs, Email SHOULD be able to query any of the other two (both GCs). The Email servers will log 2102 and 9176 errors "We can see the other GCs but they're not supporting NSPI Service ...", . Reboots tried on the Email servers of course to see it that'll fix things. Everything is fine once this one DC is brought back up. Brent -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dumke, Jane Posted At: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:13 PM Posted To: MS Exchange List Conversation: PF Replication Subject: RE: PF Replication This is similar to what I did under Ex2K. With really problem PFs this still didn't work, and I would complete remove the replica from one server, and then readd it later. It's time consuming and exacting and not a lot of fun, and there is no guarantee that once it gets in sync, that it will stay in sync. Jane Dumke Email Administrator University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone:(715)346-2463 fax:(715)346-4577 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MS Exchange List Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:57 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: PF Replication Hello, I found turning off Virus scanning (both source & target) before starting the replication to be helpful. Exporting PF info (from ESM) from Source and Target into Excel I'd sort to find out which ones worked, which ones didn't. And again with Virus Scanning off, I'd manually drop a message into the Source of a PF that didn't replicate. Actually fairly quick with the list on one part of the screen and clicking away in OUTLOOK on the other. This "forced" all the problem ones to replicate. Somewhere back in the archives I might have posted more, but the above is the gist of it. Now back to my troublesome E2K->E2k3 migration ... Good Luck, Brent -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dumke, Jane Posted At: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:48 AM Posted To: MS Exchange List Conversation: PF Replication Subject: RE: PF Replication Good luck. We have extensive public folders and were never successful in complete replication. We ended up removing all but necessary folders from replication. I think we're a bit better off with the tools in EX2K3 that show us where the problem lies and allows us to send the folder contents. Jane Dumke Email Administrator University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone:(715)346-2463 fax:(715)346-4577 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bowles, John (OIG/OMP) Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:27 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: PF Replication All, I'm trying to replicate public folders from one server to another (both E2K). Do you recommend using the Propagate settings inside of ESM to replicate the replicas of the new server to all the subfolders? This is the second time I've done this and it seems that none of the information gets replicated from the old server to the new servers. Any thoughts? 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