Replicate Public Folder Contents
Where does one set the timeout for replicating public folder content between servers? I've got three global sites that aren't getting the updates and i suspect it's because it's timing out.. The public folders contain applications that are about 180 megs in total. I can see themessage in the HUB queues, but eventually it fails and i get "451 4.4.0 Primary target IP address responded with: "421 4.4.2 Connection Dropped." Occassionally one will replicate successfully, but not often enough to be reliable. Replicating to local sites (with a much faster connection) happens no problem are configured identically to the global sites.It seems like all the settings available are for retry intervals and not the connection timeouts themselves.Alternatively, is there some way to manually move the public folder contents to the other MBX servers?Ex2k7 SP1, latest rollups installed on all servers.(Cross-posted to two other groups)
September 30th, 2009 6:25pm
Did you do the message tracking?
Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting Basics
http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Public-Folder-Replication-Troubleshooting.html
What is your replication schedule set to?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691120(EXCHG.80).aspx
Also have you tried: Update-PublicFolderHierarchy -Server servername
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996837(EXCHG.80).aspx
and/or Update-PublicFolder "\My Public Folder" -Server servername http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998661(EXCHG.80).aspx Vinod
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October 1st, 2009 2:23pm
Thanks for the reply Vinod.The first link you sent is for Exchange 2003. My environment is Ex2k7. The other links explain how to manually initate a replication, which isn't the problem here. I can initiate it just fine, it's just not completing.The rep schedule is 4 hours by the way. It times out long before that window though, and falls into a backfill request situation.
October 1st, 2009 5:10pm
Please check if event 1037 or 2019 is in the application log, or any other warning/error event
Please use the “How to troubleshoot public folder replication issue?” part of the FAQ2 to increase the diagnostic logging level for public folder replication
Please run ExBPA against both public folder source and target server for health check
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October 5th, 2009 8:39am
Check the below article to troubleshoot failing backfill response in Excahange 2007 Public folder replication.http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/01/10/447843.aspx Thanks
Hari
October 5th, 2009 9:39am