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From: Bill Hobson on 10 Oct 2007 10:19 I am throwing in the towel on Exchange 2007 until a ServicePack or 2 are out - it has crashed my Exchange 2003 system too many times. I am trying, after removing all mailbox databases, to remove the Public Folder database, which I am forced to remove before removing Exchange 2007. I am running the moveallreplicas.ps1 script and get this: [PS] D:\PROGRAM FILES\microsoft\exchange server\Scripts>moveallreplicas.ps1 -ser ver:"email2" -newserver:"email" WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been encountered: WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid values are: Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), digits from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. One or more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should be preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they will be mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is generated from such an alias. WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been encountered: WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid values are: Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), digits from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. One or more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should be preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they will be mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is generated from such an alias. <end of output - I didn't copy it twice - this is the real output!> So what hurculean feat do I need to do to get rid ot the replicas and get this ()*&()*& server system off my network and out of my AD structure?
From: Ed Crowley [MVP] on 10 Oct 2007 14:53 Using Exchange 2003 System Manager, on each top-level folder, change the replicas to remove the Exchange 2007 server, and then right-click the folder, select All Tasks, Propagate Settings, and choose to propagate the replicas. You can also use PFDAVADMIN to do this, or PFMIGRATE, but I don't think either are any easier for you if you're talking about ending up with a simple structure. Don't forget to remove the replicas of any of the Exchange 2003 Schedule+ Free/Busy folders and the Offline Address Book folders. -- Ed Crowley MVP - Exchange "Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!" "Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2(a)suddenlink.net> wrote in message news:OMY4Ci0CIHA.4476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >I am throwing in the towel on Exchange 2007 until a ServicePack or 2 are >out - it has crashed my Exchange 2003 system too many times. I am trying, >after removing all mailbox databases, to remove the Public Folder database, >which I am forced to remove before removing Exchange 2007. I am running the >moveallreplicas.ps1 script and get this: > > [PS] D:\PROGRAM FILES\microsoft\exchange > server\Scripts>moveallreplicas.ps1 -ser > ver:"email2" -newserver:"email" > WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an > inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been encountered: > WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid values > are: > Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), > digits > from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. > One or > more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should be > preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode > characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they will > be > mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is > generated > from such an alias. > WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an > inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been encountered: > WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid values > are: > Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), > digits > from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. > One or > more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should be > preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode > characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they will > be > mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is > generated > from such an alias. > <end of output - I didn't copy it twice - this is the real output!> > > So what hurculean feat do I need to do to get rid ot the replicas and get > this ()*&()*& server system off my network and out of my AD structure? >
From: Bill Hobson on 11 Oct 2007 09:14 No can do - I tell the replicas on the Exchange 2007 server via ESM, right-click the Exchange 2007 Public Folder Store, select "Move All Replicas" to move back to the Exchange 2003 server and get the following message: "Your profile is not configured. An unexpected, unknown error occurred. Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store ID no: 8004011c-0521-00000000 ID no: c1050000 Exchange System Manager" I really hate working with Exchange 2007 - it appears to me that it was rushed to market, disregarding all of the things really necessary to make it work with Exchange 2003, IMHO. Having given feedback to MS on the Message Tracking tool, I got this response, which appears to strengthen my opinion: "Thank you for the feedback Bill. We are sorry you aren't satisfied with the new GUI (I assume you are talking about the GUI since you are sending feedback on this alias). Since transport was changed significantly in Exchange 2007, the message tracking logic had to be completely reworked, and the bulk of our effort in the admin area went into putting all of our business logic into Powershell cmdlets. Due to resource and time constraints, the GUI work was originally cut and then we decided to try to ease the expected pain somewhat by providing a scripted UI using the same framework we had developed for our troubleshooter tools. Since its scripted, it is unfortunately less sophisticated." "Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice(a)mvpsnospam.org> wrote in message news:eMYHZ72CIHA.4476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Using Exchange 2003 System Manager, on each top-level folder, change the > replicas to remove the Exchange 2007 server, and then right-click the > folder, select All Tasks, Propagate Settings, and choose to propagate the > replicas. You can also use PFDAVADMIN to do this, or PFMIGRATE, but I > don't think either are any easier for you if you're talking about ending > up with a simple structure. > > Don't forget to remove the replicas of any of the Exchange 2003 Schedule+ > Free/Busy folders and the Offline Address Book folders. > -- > Ed Crowley > MVP - Exchange > "Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!" > > "Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2(a)suddenlink.net> wrote in message > news:OMY4Ci0CIHA.4476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>I am throwing in the towel on Exchange 2007 until a ServicePack or 2 are >>out - it has crashed my Exchange 2003 system too many times. I am trying, >>after removing all mailbox databases, to remove the Public Folder >>database, which I am forced to remove before removing Exchange 2007. I am >>running the moveallreplicas.ps1 script and get this: >> >> [PS] D:\PROGRAM FILES\microsoft\exchange >> server\Scripts>moveallreplicas.ps1 -ser >> ver:"email2" -newserver:"email" >> WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an >> inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been >> encountered: >> WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid values >> are: >> Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), >> digits >> from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. >> One or >> more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should be >> preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode >> characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they >> will be >> mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is >> generated >> from such an alias. >> WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an >> inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been >> encountered: >> WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid values >> are: >> Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), >> digits >> from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. >> One or >> more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should be >> preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode >> characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they >> will be >> mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is >> generated >> from such an alias. >> <end of output - I didn't copy it twice - this is the real output!> >> >> So what hurculean feat do I need to do to get rid ot the replicas and get >> this ()*&()*& server system off my network and out of my AD structure? >> > >
From: Ed Crowley [MVP] on 11 Oct 2007 11:55 That isn't the way I told you to do it. -- Ed Crowley MVP - Exchange "Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!" "Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2(a)suddenlink.net> wrote in message news:%23Szo3iADIHA.5328(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > No can do - I tell the replicas on the Exchange 2007 server via ESM, > right-click the Exchange 2007 Public Folder Store, select "Move All > Replicas" to move back to the Exchange 2003 server and get the following > message: > "Your profile is not configured. > An unexpected, unknown error occurred. > Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store > ID no: 8004011c-0521-00000000 > > ID no: c1050000 > Exchange System Manager" > > I really hate working with Exchange 2007 - it appears to me that it was > rushed to market, disregarding all of the things really necessary to make > it work with Exchange 2003, IMHO. > > Having given feedback to MS on the Message Tracking tool, I got this > response, which appears to strengthen my opinion: > "Thank you for the feedback Bill. We are sorry you aren't satisfied with > the new GUI (I assume you are talking about the GUI since you are sending > feedback on this alias). Since transport was changed significantly in > Exchange 2007, the message tracking logic had to be completely reworked, > and the bulk of our effort in the admin area went into putting all of our > business logic into Powershell cmdlets. Due to resource and time > constraints, the GUI work was originally cut and then we decided to try to > ease the expected pain somewhat by providing a scripted UI using the same > framework we had developed for our troubleshooter tools. Since its > scripted, it is unfortunately less sophisticated." > > > "Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice(a)mvpsnospam.org> wrote in message > news:eMYHZ72CIHA.4476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Using Exchange 2003 System Manager, on each top-level folder, change the >> replicas to remove the Exchange 2007 server, and then right-click the >> folder, select All Tasks, Propagate Settings, and choose to propagate the >> replicas. You can also use PFDAVADMIN to do this, or PFMIGRATE, but I >> don't think either are any easier for you if you're talking about ending >> up with a simple structure. >> >> Don't forget to remove the replicas of any of the Exchange 2003 Schedule+ >> Free/Busy folders and the Offline Address Book folders. >> -- >> Ed Crowley >> MVP - Exchange >> "Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!" >> >> "Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2(a)suddenlink.net> wrote in message >> news:OMY4Ci0CIHA.4476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>I am throwing in the towel on Exchange 2007 until a ServicePack or 2 are >>>out - it has crashed my Exchange 2003 system too many times. I am trying, >>>after removing all mailbox databases, to remove the Public Folder >>>database, which I am forced to remove before removing Exchange 2007. I am >>>running the moveallreplicas.ps1 script and get this: >>> >>> [PS] D:\PROGRAM FILES\microsoft\exchange >>> server\Scripts>moveallreplicas.ps1 -ser >>> ver:"email2" -newserver:"email" >>> WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an >>> inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been >>> encountered: >>> WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid values >>> are: >>> Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), >>> digits >>> from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. >>> One or >>> more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should be >>> preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode >>> characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they >>> will be >>> mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is >>> generated >>> from such an alias. >>> WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an >>> inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been >>> encountered: >>> WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid values >>> are: >>> Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), >>> digits >>> from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. >>> One or >>> more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should be >>> preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode >>> characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they >>> will be >>> mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is >>> generated >>> from such an alias. >>> <end of output - I didn't copy it twice - this is the real output!> >>> >>> So what hurculean feat do I need to do to get rid ot the replicas and >>> get this ()*&()*& server system off my network and out of my AD >>> structure? >>> >> >> > >
From: Bill Hobson on 11 Oct 2007 12:10
Then I don't understand what you are asking me to do. When you say "top level folder", what do you mean exactly? Top level under First Administrative Group, Folders, Public Folders on the Exchange 2003 server? It shows no replication being done - the only server listed under the Replication tab is the 2003 server itself for each folder directly under Public Folders. You said: Using Exchange 2003 System Manager, on each *top-level folder*, change the replicas to remove the Exchange 2007 server, and then right-click the folder, select All Tasks, Propagate Settings, and choose to propagate the replicas. You can also use PFDAVADMIN to do this, or PFMIGRATE, but I don't think either are any easier for you if you're talking about ending up with a simple structure. "Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice(a)mvpsnospam.org> wrote in message news:uI33b8BDIHA.1164(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > That isn't the way I told you to do it. > -- > Ed Crowley > MVP - Exchange > "Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!" > > "Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2(a)suddenlink.net> wrote in message > news:%23Szo3iADIHA.5328(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> No can do - I tell the replicas on the Exchange 2007 server via ESM, >> right-click the Exchange 2007 Public Folder Store, select "Move All >> Replicas" to move back to the Exchange 2003 server and get the following >> message: >> "Your profile is not configured. >> An unexpected, unknown error occurred. >> Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store >> ID no: 8004011c-0521-00000000 >> >> ID no: c1050000 >> Exchange System Manager" >> >> I really hate working with Exchange 2007 - it appears to me that it was >> rushed to market, disregarding all of the things really necessary to make >> it work with Exchange 2003, IMHO. >> >> Having given feedback to MS on the Message Tracking tool, I got this >> response, which appears to strengthen my opinion: >> "Thank you for the feedback Bill. We are sorry you aren't satisfied with >> the new GUI (I assume you are talking about the GUI since you are sending >> feedback on this alias). Since transport was changed significantly in >> Exchange 2007, the message tracking logic had to be completely reworked, >> and the bulk of our effort in the admin area went into putting all of our >> business logic into Powershell cmdlets. Due to resource and time >> constraints, the GUI work was originally cut and then we decided to try >> to ease the expected pain somewhat by providing a scripted UI using the >> same framework we had developed for our troubleshooter tools. Since its >> scripted, it is unfortunately less sophisticated." >> >> >> "Ed Crowley [MVP]" <curspice(a)mvpsnospam.org> wrote in message >> news:eMYHZ72CIHA.4476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> Using Exchange 2003 System Manager, on each top-level folder, change the >>> replicas to remove the Exchange 2007 server, and then right-click the >>> folder, select All Tasks, Propagate Settings, and choose to propagate >>> the replicas. You can also use PFDAVADMIN to do this, or PFMIGRATE, but >>> I don't think either are any easier for you if you're talking about >>> ending up with a simple structure. >>> >>> Don't forget to remove the replicas of any of the Exchange 2003 >>> Schedule+ Free/Busy folders and the Offline Address Book folders. >>> -- >>> Ed Crowley >>> MVP - Exchange >>> "Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!" >>> >>> "Bill Hobson" <Ih8spamwjh2(a)suddenlink.net> wrote in message >>> news:OMY4Ci0CIHA.4476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>>I am throwing in the towel on Exchange 2007 until a ServicePack or 2 are >>>>out - it has crashed my Exchange 2003 system too many times. I am >>>>trying, after removing all mailbox databases, to remove the Public >>>>Folder database, which I am forced to remove before removing Exchange >>>>2007. I am running the moveallreplicas.ps1 script and get this: >>>> >>>> [PS] D:\PROGRAM FILES\microsoft\exchange >>>> server\Scripts>moveallreplicas.ps1 -ser >>>> ver:"email2" -newserver:"email" >>>> WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an >>>> inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been >>>> encountered: >>>> WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid >>>> values are: >>>> Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), >>>> digits >>>> from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. >>>> One or >>>> more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should >>>> be >>>> preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode >>>> characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they >>>> will be >>>> mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is >>>> generated >>>> from such an alias. >>>> WARNING: Object Public Folder Store has been corrupted and it is in an >>>> inconsistent state. The following validation errors have been >>>> encountered: >>>> WARNING: "PublicFolderStore(EMAIL)" is not valid for Alias. Valid >>>> values are: >>>> Strings formed with characters from a to z (uppercase or lowercase), >>>> digits >>>> from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. >>>> One or >>>> more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each one of them should >>>> be >>>> preceded and followed by at least one of the other characters. Unicode >>>> characters from U+00A1 to U+00FF are also valid in an alias, but they >>>> will be >>>> mapped to a best-fit US-ASCII string in the email address which is >>>> generated >>>> from such an alias. >>>> <end of output - I didn't copy it twice - this is the real output!> >>>> >>>> So what hurculean feat do I need to do to get rid ot the replicas and >>>> get this ()*&()*& server system off my network and out of my AD >>>> structure? >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > |