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Moving Public Folders

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by rgagg

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I made the mistake of turning of an exchange server adn decomissioning it before I moved the public folders that were housed there.
Is there a way to relocate the folders from replicas on another exchange server?

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by mckaytech

Oops... I did that once myself. As long as each of the folders had a replica elsewhere, you should be able to go to the Instances tab on the Public Information Store Properties Page, add each folder to the new server and they "should" replicate back to the new server. You may then need to "re-home" them if you want them to be homed on the new server.

Usually this works, but if there were public folders for which the only instance was on the decommissioned server, they may have to be recovered from a backup tape. In that case, you can follow the "single mailbox recovery" procedure, recover the folders on a recovery server, export them to a *.pst file and then import that file back into the production system. It sounds more grueling than it is...

paul

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