Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2010 Public Folder Replication

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We have 2 exchange servers in our org. MX1 and MX2. I'm trying to replicate all MX1 public folders to MX2. I've setup replication for all the toplevel folders to include the MX2 server. However no public folders are being replicated. The event log does not show any errors. I've set the diagnostic level for all public folder diagnostics to Highest using

get-eventloglevel "MSExchangeIS\9001 Public\*" | set-eventloglevel -Level Expert

However besides a 3092 event ID (type: 0x2) generated on MX1 (the source server), there are no events being generated that would notify me of any issues.

Some technical details. MX1 is Windows 2008 Standard, MX2 is Windows 2008 Enterprise (eval mode right now).

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The settings are not recursive. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997966.aspx for a list of scripts that are supplied with Exchange 2010 to help with what you want to do.

You will probably want to run AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1

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The public folder replicas and the default public folder database for a mailbox server are two different things.

The public folder tree is an organization-level entity, unrelated to any physical database; each folder can have one or more replicas, residing on various mailbox servers.

When a user needs to actually access a PF, Outlook connects to the nearest-available public folder database which contains a replica of that folder; this is an automated process, and doesn't need any user or admin intervention. So, if each and every folder is replicated to both of your mailbox servers, then your public folder databases are already higly available: should one of the servers fail, your clients would automatically connect to the other one.

The default public folder database is a configuration setting of every mailbox database; it specifies to which PF database users whose mailboxes reside on that mailbox database will first try to connect in order to access public folders, and where new folders will be physically created when they are created by one of those users. This actually doesn't have any importance at all if all of your folders are replicated to all of your servers: as I said above, failover will be handled automatically, and folders that get created on one server will be very quickly replicated to the other one.

If your public folders databases have been created and mounted and everything is replicated to both of them, you shouldn't have to worry at all about their availability; PF replication has been around for quite a while, and has been very thoroughly tested. So much, actually, that there was no need to include PF databases into DAGs exactly because they already have built-in redundancy.

How to set root public folder permissions in Exchange 2010

Use the Exchange user name instead of the domain login name. By Default this is the First Name plus the Last name. For example, use "John Smith" instead of "jsmith". So, the command would be:

AddUsersToPFRecursive.ps1 -toppublicfolder \ -User "FirstName LastName" -Permissions Owner

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