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by andrieum

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Hi all,

I recently migrated my Exchange 2000 server to Exchange 2003 on a different machine. I moved all the mailboxes and public folders and all went fine. My only problem is that I have a public folder with an SMTP address and this folder doesn't receive emails when I dismount the Public information store on the old Exchaneg 2000 server. As soon as I mount it back the mail gets delivered. So it gets to my Exchange 2003 but doesn't deliver the message unless the old Exchange 2000 server Public folder store is online and then it delivers it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance !

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by churdoo

For this one, I would start by rebuilding the Recipient Update Services

by andrieum

Hi,

The Recipient Update Services awas still running on the old Ex2K server so I changed it to run on the new Ex2K3 server and forced a rebuild. I got about 10 errors in the event log like this one :

LDAP returned the error [35] Unwilling To Perform when importing the transaction
dn:
changetype: Modify
member:add:

which didn't really worry me too much.

Then I dismounted the Public Information Store on the old Ex2K server and tried posting to my public folder from outside the domain and it still failed. I mounted it back on and the message was delivered.

When I track the message sent to that public folder with the Messaging Tracking Center there a difference in the way the message is delivered to normal users. WIth normal users the mailonly goes through the E2K3 server and gets deliverred localy and not with this Public folder where it bounces between the Ex2K and the Ex2K3 servers before getting delivered as shown in the following print screen : http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/recruiting.php

by churdoo

I suppose the next thing I would do would be to go into the folder props and remove the replica of the folder from the W2K box, and see if that does it (after waiting an hour or so, or preferably overnight for the changes to settle in). You can always re-add the replica later once the problem is resolved. If you've already done that or if you do it and still no joy, then I suppose I would delete the folder, or just un-mail-enable it, wait an hour or so (or preferably overnight, if possible) then re mail-enable it, or re-create it.

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