My public folders are not replicating correctly between exchange 2003 and 2007. When I turn on diagnostics I get the following 2 errors when I try to add something to a public folder. It looks like my 2003 public folder stores email address can't send email to the 2007 public folder stores email address. Replication from 2007 to 2003 is working fine but all my data is on the 2003 server. Looking at the event logs all I see on the 2007 server are outbound replication event no inbound ones. On the 2003 server I see both. Does anyone have any idea how to allow email to the public folder stores email address since it does not show up in any address books? ***************** Event Type: InformationEvent Source: MSExchangeTransportEvent Category: Categorizer Event ID: 9013Date: 8/25/2008Time: 10:23:00 AMUser: N/AComputer: BACHELORDescription:A message from 'smtp:ZIRIA-IS@esd189.org' could not be delivered because the sender does not have permission to send to recipient 'smtp: PublicFolderDatabase@esd189.org'. This is due to a delivery restriction configured on the recipient. (Message-ID: <BACHELORm6pUpbaWxKx0000b076@ziria.esd189.org>). A DSN will be generated. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.Data:0000: de 02 04 c0 .. ************************** Event Type: InformationEvent Source: MSExchangeTransportEvent Category: Categorizer Event ID: 6015Date: 8/25/2008Time: 10:23:00 AMUser: N/AComputer: BACHELORDescription:Categorizer is NDRing a recipient with address SMTP: PublicFolderDatabase@esd189.org with reason code 0xc00402de (The sender does not have the permissions required to send this message to it the intended recipients.). For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.Data:0000: de 02 04 c0 .. **************************** Thanks for the help Kyle

Hi, Is there a connector created between the exchange 2003 and exchange 2007 environment ? Regards, Johan visit my site: www.johanveldhuis.nl

Yes the connectors have been created and seem to be working fine. I have about 15 people moved to the exchange 2007 server and all email between the servers is working great to and from these people. Kyle

We had an issue once with another departmentsExchange 2003 server not being able to replicate public folder information over to our Exchange 2003 server. The problem was that they had the default virtual smtp pointed to a smarthost. All of the email including system email was going outside the orginization and back in. You might want to check that your system email is staying internal. I believe it will get rejected otherwise. -Steve

I do have a smart host on the default virtual smtp connection but the system email does not seem to be hitting it. Also why would it only affect this system accout and not the other email address have have moved over? Thanks for the help

When you send a 2003 user email to a 2007 user email and check the header info... does it route through the smarthost? In our case the non system messages and the system messages were going out through the smarthost. Exchange would allow the non system just like any other email from the outside. System messages however wouldget rejected. Having a smarthost set on the default virtual smtp is overriding the connector. -Steve

Clarify: Public folder replication issue from exchange 2003 to exchange 2007 I see that you have turned on Diagnostics Logging on the Transport Categorizer and found Event 9013 which related to permission deny. A common cause for it is, someone added old Exchange server computer accounts into Domain Admins group which does not have all of the permissions that Exchange Domain Servers or Exchange Enterprise Servers have. Therere some obvious denies like Receive As and Send As permissions. So please check if thats the cause of your issue, if thats it, remove those Exchange servers from Domain Admins and restart all servers [Please do this in unproduced time!] Another known workaround for this similar issue: Apply KB 830181 on your exchange 2003 and restart SMTP service Please also rises diagnose level to Maximum to monitor the issue: For e2k3: logging on Replication Incoming and Replication Outgoing to Maximum in ESM For e2k7: Use Set-EventLogLevel to set "MSExchangeIS\9001 Public\Replication Incoming Messages" and "MSExchangeIS\9001 Public\Replication Outgoing Messages" to the Expert level in EMS

Thanks for the answer. That was my problem. Yesterday I found KB 830181and applied the registry fix and it worked. After reading your post I checked the Server groups you mentioned and the server was not in there so that probably would have worked to.Thanks for the help.

Great! Glad you worked it out