Hi All Trying to decomission this as part of a datacentre shutdown. Unfortunately its installed in the production AD and Exchange organisation. The whole environment is under change control so I don't want to take any risks. My problem is that since SP2 you have to rehome the public folders. If I try and delete the public folder store I get: "You cannot delete this public folder store because it contains folder replicas" The public folders and public folder instances under the store are empty. Until today this server's VLAN wasn't open on port 25 so I doubt anything replicated to it. We've got a lot of public folders but I've gone to the replication tab on 20 of them at random and not found them replicating anywhere and anyway since this was blocked off I don't think anyone could have setup a replica. On our live public folder server - public folder referrals are set by routing group and its in a different one from this test box. I've tried taking the store offline - renaming pub1.edb and pub1.stm remounting the store and then deleting but it gives me the same error. I found this: http://doesitecho.com/archives/2006/01/forcibly_removing_public_folders.php This seems to back this up: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3333425&SiteID=17 So I assume I run the uninstall on dev2 and then do the deletion in adsiedit or is it safer the other way round? I've done this to kill off old app servers before but never exchange and its a big environment at a busy time of year, which is why I'm being so cautious. Would be very handy if adsiedit had a save object function ...ah well.
The error might be due to some folder having its replica on other servers. You can use PFDAVADMIN to remove the replica of all folders from your test server and then run the uninstall. Personally, I would suggest you to not to hard delete any server from adsiedit. If you are confident enough about the rest of the referals fo the test servers then go ahead. But still it isnt a good practice. -- Milind Naphade http://mnaphade.blogspot.com "Kevin Edwards" wrote: > Hi All > > Trying to decomission this as part of a datacentre shutdown. Unfortunately > its installed in the production AD and Exchange organisation. The whole > environment is under change control so I don't want to take any risks. > > My problem is that since SP2 you have to rehome the public folders. > If I try and delete the public folder store I get: > > "You cannot delete this public folder store because it contains folder > replicas" > > The public folders and public folder instances under the store are empty. > > Until today this server's VLAN wasn't open on port 25 so I doubt anything > replicated to it. We've got a lot of public folders but I've gone to the > replication tab on 20 of them at random and not found them replicating > anywhere and anyway since this was blocked off I don't think anyone could > have setup a replica. > > On our live public folder server - public folder referrals are set by > routing group and its in a different one from this test box. > > > I've tried taking the store offline - renaming pub1.edb and pub1.stm > remounting the store and then deleting but it gives me the same error. > > I found this: > > http://doesitecho.com/archives/2006/01/forcibly_removing_public_folders.php > > This seems to back this up: > http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3333425&SiteID=17 > > So I assume I run the uninstall on dev2 and then do the deletion in adsiedit > or is it safer the other way round? > > I've done this to kill off old app servers before but never exchange and its > a big environment at a busy time of year, which is why I'm being so cautious. > Would be very handy if adsiedit had a save object function ...ah well.
Thanks Milind Got it resolved through the GUI in the end. One of the admins has a semi-test server - we did a 'move all replicas' onto that. It still wouldn't delete the pub store after that. Shutdown DEV2 and did a delete server from ESM and that worked so I assume the server being online was the key factor.
