Hello Im hoping to Delete and Recreate our public folders on Exchange 2007 (SP1) to resolve some replica issues that where created during the migration from Exchange 2000. I have read articles bb201664 and bb123687 on technet regarding the subjet. My question is when I delete the public folders all our older clients (Outlook 2000 + 2003) will no longer be able to connect, when I recreate the Public Folders will they be fine again? We do not use the Public Folders at present, so no shared Calendars or Contacts to worry about. Thanks in advance for you help.Chris

Also bear in mind legacy Outlook clients use Public folders for free/busy information andoffline address books. To answer your question , then yes as long as thenew public database is re-assigned the Mailbox databases, which holds the respective user mailboxes.

Ok I will give it a go. Do you think this will solve my replica issues? Regards Chris

Well I don't know enough about the replication problem you're experiencing in order to answer that question. What's happening?

Well basically following a migration from Exchange 2000 we cannot access the public folders. I think this is due to the replicas being on the old server, which is now dead...... So I was hoping by starting a fresh with new public folders it would help the situation.Regards Chris

There should be a good chance this will resolve your replication issues too...

Good Morning IM in the process of trying this but get the following error exchange cannot remove the public folder database SAMDC02\Second Storage Group\Public Folder Database because it is the last public folder database in an organization that has pre-Exchange 2007 servers. Organizations that have pre-Exchange 2007 servers must have at least one public folder database. Any clues? Regards Chris

Right sorry to keep posting Have solved the last error, now getting Cannot Remove Public Folders as Replicas Exisit, either delete them folders or move them. I have managed to delete most of them but some like the OAB etc wont go, I get a permissions error, I have disabled OAB distributin via Public Folders allready. Im hoping this is casued becasue it thinks they are still in use, and may be ok following a reboot. Now trying a roger reboot..... Regards Chris

Nope no dice Following a reboot, when I try and remove the remaining folders I get --------------------------------------------------------Microsoft Exchange Error--------------------------------------------------------Action 'Remove' could not be performed on object 'Internet Newsgroups'. Internet NewsgroupsFailedError:Cannot delete the object '\Internet Newsgroups'. Please make sure that you specified the correct identity and that you have the correct permissions to delete it. MapiExceptionPartialCompletion: Unable to delete folder. (hr=0x40680, ec=0)Diagnostic context: Lid: 18969 EcDoRpcExt2 called [length=54] Lid: 27161 EcDoRpcExt2 returned [ec=0x0][length=85][latency=0] Lid: 23226 --- ROP Parse Start --- Lid: 27962 ROP: ropDeleteFolder [29] Lid: 17082 ROP Error: 0x80070005 Lid: 19297 Lid: 21921 StoreEc: 0x80070005 Lid: 27962 ROP: ropNone [0] Lid: 26881 Lid: 21817 ROP Failure: 0x80070005 Lid: 24721 Lid: 20625 StoreEc: 0x80070005 --------------------------------------------------------OK-------------------------------------------------------- People are starting to come in so have a bit of time to do some more research, thanks for your assistance so far. Regards Chris

Sorry for all the posts, was panicing a bit All resolved not, deleted the old public folders using ADSI Edit, then recreated, now seems ok.... Scary when all my users got, "Your Administrator has Disabled this version of the Client" Thanks for you help. Chris