I've been following the instructions in this article http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307917 trying to rehome the system folders (not public folders) to a new exchange 2000 server. I did the first step of adding a new server for replication and am stuck at instruction number 1i. waiting to see if the target server is in sync. Ever since I added the target server to the replication list two days ago, it has been saying "local modified" as its syncronization status. We don't have a very big organization and in two days we could easily have transfered the entire contents of the server ten times over. I assume this means that the syncronization is not working. I'm hoping for suggestions on how to check the progress of the syncronization and what might be the trouble. both servers are running windows 2000 server and exchange 2000 server.
It might also be important to note that the source exchange server, that is the one i'm trying to get rid of, is a domain controller, however, the new server is not. I also noticed that the source exchange server which also runs dns for the entire site did not have it self listed as its dns in the network configuration. could this be part of the problem? Another piece of evidence: if you open the exchange system manager on the target server, nothing shows up under admin groups / "groupname" / folders/ public folders. if you right click on "public folders" and choose "connect to" there are no options of servers to connect to.
