Showing posts with label Exchange 2003. Show all posts

I have seen that after migration from 2003 to 2007-2010 people tend to delete First Administrative Group from Adsiedit.msc without moving the Public Folder Hierarchies. The issue everyone face is Public Folder Database not mounting. Here is step by step instruction to create Public Folder Hierarchies.


Create the "Folder Hierarchies" under the Exchange Administrative Group
1. Right click on Exchange Administrative Group
2. Select New Object
3. Select msExchPublicFolderTreeContainer for the class and click Next
4. Enter the following for the value: Folder Hierarchies, click Next
5. Click Finish

Create Public Folder Tree Object
1. Right click CN=Folder Hierarchies -> New Object
2. Selected msExchPFTree for the class
3. For the value we entered, "Public Folders" and clicked next
4. Click on the "More Attributes" button, selected msExchPFTreeType and set the
value to 1. Note: This is very important that this value is set to a value of 1 as
this tells Exchange that this is a MAPI Tree
5. Click Ok and then finish

1. Get properties of the newly created "Public Folders" Tree object in ADSIEdit.
2. Copy the distinguishedname value to the clipboard and then click cancel.
3. Navigate to the Storage group that contains the Public Folder Store for this
server and get properties of the server.
4. Locate the msExchOwningPFTree attribute and paste in the value that was copied
to the clipboard in step 2. Click OK.
5. Restart the Information Store Service
6. Attempt to mount the PF store if it is not already.

Cheers,

It's been long time I worked on Exchange Server 2003. I got a chance to work on it this week and it's interesting. Client had Exchange 2003 Std edition and database crossed the 75 GB limit.
The good part was that client got this issue on weekend, hence there were no issues in production.
After long discussion we decided that migrating to Exchange 2010 won;t be possible due to the budget (as if now) hence he asked for the alternate resolution. After checking the event 1221 for Mailbox and Public Folder Store we found that there  is nothing we can achieve even after running the Defragmentation.

We decided to do In-Place upgrade from Standard to Enterprise.The good part is, client had the licensing for Enterprise(I don't know why didn't they installed Ent. edition).
Started the upgrade and it failed. Check the application log and found the below event id.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeSetup
Event Category: Microsoft Exchange Setup 
Event ID: 1002
Date:  7/10/2011
Time:  10:21:37 AM
User:  N/A
Computer: 2003
Description:
Exchange Server component Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration Services failed. 
Error: 0xc107041d - 0xc007041d - The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. (EXIFS) 
For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. 
Checked the ExchangeSetupLog and got the error:

CComBOIFacesFactory::QueryInterface (d:\jtrs\admin\src\udog\bo\bofactory.cxx:54)
           Error code 0X80004002 (16386): No interface.