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From: Midwest Muskie on 24 Mar 2010 08:47
Steve,

I came across this thread when researching how to remove a public folder
store. I created a new root public folder and associated it with a new
public folder store that I created. I was just wanting to do some testing.
Now I cannot remove either the store or the root folder. When I try to "Move
all replicas", there are no servers to select to move to. We are running
Exchange 2003 SP2 with one front end server and two back end servers. All of
the public folders on the back-end servers are currently being replicated to
each other.

I manually removed the system folders you recommended in this thread, but am
still unable to remove the new public folder store.

Any suggestions you may have would be most helpful.

Thanks,
Mike

"Steven" wrote:

> To remove the public folder database you need to remove the OWAScratchPad
> {5426.........} and StoreEvents{5426.......} (globalevents and internal
> are subfolders of StoreEvents{5426.......}). To do this you need to go to
> Administrative Groups --> <admin group where the folder container is> -->
> Folders.
>
> Right click on Public Folders and select "View System Folders" (and also
> make sure you're connected to the public folder database you're removing).
> Then expand Public Folders and you'll see all the system folders listed.
> You'll need to find the folders here, right click on them and select
> "Delete" (make sure to delete the right ones that match up to the name
> that you see populated in your public folder database). Then when they're
> all gone (you can verify this by going back and looking at the public
> folders that are in the database like you did before..it might take a
> minute or two for the changes to show) right click on the public folder
> database and select "Delete".
>
> If you dismount the public folder database and re-mount it...it will
> recreate the OWAScratchPad and StoreEvents, so you'll need to do the above
> while the store is online and delete it while it's in an online state.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan [mailto:Dan(a)discussions.microsoft.com]
> Posted At: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Issue removing a pub folder store -- again
>
> Yes
>
> globalevents
> internal
> OWAScratchPad {5426.........}
> StoreEvents{5426.......}
>
>
> If I go into the replication tab of each the only server listed is the
> server I'm trying to remove but it does not give me the option to remove
> it.
>
>
> "Steven" wrote:
>
> > If you open ESM (2003) and go to the 2003 public folder database you're
> > trying to remove and expand it and look in the "Public Folders"
> > container.
> > Are there any folders listed?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan [mailto:Dan(a)discussions.microsoft.com]
> > Posted At: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:44 AM
> > Subject: Issue removing a pub folder store -- again
> >
> > I have 5 servers (2 - 03 and 3 - 07)
> >
> > I'm trying to decommission one of the 03 boxes but I'm getting the
> > classic
> > "you cannot delete this public folder store because it contains folder
> > replicas" message. The server is obviously not the last 03 server in the
> > org
> > and it was not the first either.
> >
> > I've manually removed replicas from it, run "Move All Replicas" in the
> > ESM
> > and ran the MoveAllReplicas.ps1 script in 07 (not all the same time).
> >
> > I started last Thursday by manually removing the replicas. I then synced
> > the
> > Hierarchy and then checked again Friday. I then ran the 07 script and
> > waited
> > until today but I'm still getting that nasty message.
> >
> > I've also made sure no mailbox db's are pointing to it.
> >
> > If I dismount the pub store and remove the database files all of the
> > public
> > folders disappear under Folders\Public Folders in the ESM until I sync
> > the
> > hierarchy again.
> >
> > I know I could wack it in adsiedit but I'd rather not.
> >
> > I did verify 07 has replicas but dismounting the both pub stores in 03
> > and
> > verified that users on 07 could still see the folders.
> >
> > I've done this many many times before but this is the first with 07 in
> > the
> > mix.
> >
> > Am I missing something that is right in front of me?
> >
> >
>
>
From: Rich Matheisen [MVP] on 24 Mar 2010 15:02
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:47:01 -0700, Midwest Muskie
<MidwestMuskie(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I came across this thread when researching how to remove a public folder
>store. I created a new root public folder and associated it with a new
>public folder store that I created. I was just wanting to do some testing.
>Now I cannot remove either the store or the root folder. When I try to "Move
>all replicas", there are no servers to select to move to. We are running
>Exchange 2003 SP2 with one front end server and two back end servers. All of
>the public folders on the back-end servers are currently being replicated to
>each other.
>
>I manually removed the system folders you recommended in this thread, but am
>still unable to remove the new public folder store.
>
>Any suggestions you may have would be most helpful.

When you say that you created a new public folder store, you meant
that you created a public folder database on another server -- one
that had no public folder store before, right?

Or did you select the "Folders" container and create a new Public
Folder Tree?

The two are quite different. There can be only one MAPI Public Folder
Tree but it can have many databases (but only one database per
server). The Non-MAPI Public Folder Tree can have several PF Trees,
all on the same server, but there's no replication -- each one is on
its own.
---
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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