I'm pretty sure I have shot myself in the foot and so first up let me acknowledge my stupidity. I'm hoping that someone can suggest the best way to recover...
I am moving our single Exchange server to a new machine using the ECMSM[1]. I am moving from Exchange 5.5 on NT4 to Exchange 5.5 on Windows 2000 in case that is pertinent. I was interrupted several times for weeks at a time. Because of this, I apparently forgot how far I had gotten with the move and tried to remove the old server before I had completely dealt with the Public IS move[2]. A warning when I was trying to delete the old server led me to my error. My problem, in a nutshell, is I am unable to find a way to get the last few dozen public folders to replicate (or say they have) so that I can confidently delete their replicas on OldServer and then remove OldServer. The details of the current situation are: All public folders show their home server as NewServer and most of them were listed as in sync on their replication tab so I have removed those replicas on OldServer. However, I have 57 public folders that show "local modified" for the replica on OldServer but usually with no date listed for "last received" or a date from before (or possibly the day on which) I started the move[3]. This notation of "Local Modified" for the OldServer replica does not change no matter how long I wait (several days) nor whether I change from "always" for the replication interval to "specified times" and wait well past the specified times I set. Changing the replication interval for the entire public folder store or the individual folders made no difference. Nor did increasing the allowed size of replication messages. I turned up logging to maximum on anything relating to public folders replication and I can see indications that replication traffic is flowing between the two servers of the free busy info mainly. But there was also a connection sending an outgoing replication message from NewServer concerning replication of changes to 4 of the folders still on OldServer. There was a corresponding incoming replication event logged on OldServer but the four folders in question still say they were local modified on OldServer. And the date for "last received", for the folder that had one, was still quite a while ago. Out of the 57 folders that are not replicating there are 39 whose values for k stored, # of items, and last access date under "Public Folder Resources" are identical. There are 9 others for whom the replica on NewServer has slightly more k but the same number of items. There are 6 others whose size on OldServer is slightly larger (under 20k iirc) but again the same number of items. There are two folders on OldServer that do not appear on NewServer at all. One is "Events Root" and the other is "Internet Newsgroups" both are empty on OldServer[4]. If I just export the particular folders that are marked "Local Modified" to PST files and then remove OldServer from the network and repeat the process and then compare the PST files will I be able to determine that everything really did get replicated correctly and that it is safe for me to remove the replicas from OldServer and then remove OldServer from the site? Or is there a cleaner way around this problem (please say yes and point me to it)? I have searched MS's site, my archives of this list (back to Jan 2002), and the net in general with Google and not found anything that I could apply to this problem. I don't like just assuming that things are ok even if I compare PSTs or something and find everything is correct on NewServer. It makes me nervous. I'd be much happier if some skilled person here could tell me how to force the replication (or what I need to fix to get replication working correctly again) to sync up for both servers so that I can feel confident in my deletion of the OldServer Replicas. Thanks very much, Ronni further info which might be useless... [1] I only have the two servers because of the move - normally I have just the one server in, obviously, one site and the new server was added to the same site as per normal. [2] I also got interrupted for weeks as I was trying to correct the initial problem so I am no longer certain what order I did things in. (Yes, I know I should have written it down. I've already admitted I'm an idiot.) I believe I might have tried to remove the old server before all the public folders had been rehomed. I definitely tried to remove it before all the replicas had been deleted from OldServer. [3] Which would imply I might have had a problem before I ever started the move perhaps but no one has complained about folders missing content (or having content they shouldn't). I believe the date it lists is the date on which I began moving the folders to NewServer but I am not positive. [4] There is also a folder called "Article Index" which is also empty but which I believe to be fine as is since its creation date and last accessed date on NewServer is the same as the date I installed Exchange on NewServer and its dates for OldServer are (iirc) the one on which I installed Exchange on OldServer. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
