Peter, The alias field would apply only to folders that are mail enabled and not to corrupt messages. Those, like mailboxes, actually migrate but are not manageable in 2007 until the error in the alias is corrected. It’s usually an unauthorized character or leading/trailing whitespace that we are seeing as being considered corrupt in 2007 but they are ok in 2003. Any thoughts on corrupt messages? Thanks, Rick
________________________________ From: "Dahl, Peter" <peter.d...@yum.com> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 10:21:35 AM Subject: RE: Verifying Public Folder replication I believe the data would still replicate but we did not take chances. In our case the warnings in 2007 were related to characters in the Alias field that were allowed in 2003 but not for the Alias field in 2007. We updated the aliases to remove the characters that were incompatible with Exchange 2007. From:Rick Fischer [mailto:uscgolflo...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:37 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Verifying Public Folder replication Thank you, that works great. One last question I have is about corrupt messages or folders. We have some folders that are reported corrupt in 2007 that 2003 accepts because of, for example, a leading space in the name. What happens if there are corrupt items in the PF instance? Will they still be replicated? Will they remain on the 2003 server? Thanks, Rick ________________________________ From:"Dahl, Peter" <peter.d...@yum.com> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Wed, March 3, 2010 5:45:15 AM Subject: RE: Verifying Public Folder replication You can go ahead and remove the folder as a replica on the 2003 server. The removed folder(s) will remain listed under the Public Folder Instances folder in the Exchange 2003 System Manager screen until the data has successfully replicated off to the new server. Seeing it disappear from the Public Folder Instances folder is your sign that replication has completed. Thanks, Peter Dahl. From:Rick Fischer [mailto:uscgolflo...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Verifying Public Folder replication Hi, What is the easiest, automated, way of verifying public folder replication? We are moving replicas from our 2003 servers to 2007. We are adding the 2007 server into the replica list but how do we verify that all files have actually replicated to the 2007 server so we can remove the 2003 server from the replica list and eventually retire it? Thanks, Rick
