mount a exchange public folder database as recovery

But if the folders are leftover that you know have been replicated or if it is system folders, such as OWAScratchPad, you can remove them using: If the folders left are folders you care about, you should continue troubleshooting replication issues. Get-PublicFolderStatistics –Server SERVERNAME If you have followed the best practices and you still cannot remove the Public Folder, check which folders still reside in the database, using:

For detailed instructions about how to remove a public folder database, see. Before deleting the public folder database, remove the folders or move the replicas to another public folder database. The public folder database 'SERVERNAMESecond Storage GroupPublic Folder Database' contains folder replicas. The public folder database ‘Public Folder Database’ cannot be deleted. This error you might see in step 3, when trying to remove the Public Folder database is: Remove the PF database and delete the database files manually. Associate mailbox databases with another public folder database.ģ. See my previous post about Public Folder replica management.Ģ. Move the public folder replicas to another server. The best practices for removing a Public Folder database is:ġ. But still could not remove the Public Folder databases on some of the Exchange 2007 servers. We had followed the best practices for moving Public Folder database content to new Public Folder databases. Here is some notes from a recent issue error, I encountered at a client, doing a decommission of some Exchange 2007 servers.

Mount a exchange public folder database as recovery