decommission Public Folders
- Hello,
My company is in a process of decommissioning the Exchange 2003 server. We are moving/joining an Exchange 2007 server.
The old 2003 has Public Folders , around 50GB worth of email correspondense.
Now our task is get rid of the Public Folders entirely (they are not moving to 2007) but at the same time to export/backup in such a way that they are still accessible in a more or less similar fashion.
I thought of a few different ways, starting from Exporting each folder(which are over 500! and doing them one by one is a waste of time) into a separate PST file or exporting the while thing into one HUGE pst file. Now since, a pst file cannot be accessed by multiple users, that poses a problem.
Is there anything out there that i could utilize to address this issue? or i am pretty much stuck with moving this 50GB beast to the new Exchange 2007 as is?
Thank you,
Answers
YOu may find it easier to purchase 3rd party software from someone like http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/ or http://www.quest.com/recovery-manager-for-exchange/
( Other 3rd party products: http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping_admin.asp)
and use them to export to a pst or alternatively, build a forest in the lab, name the lab Exchange Org and Admin Group etc.. the same exact name as production, restore a copy of the 2003 public folder store and you'll always be able to access the data from there as needed and export it to a pst throught Outlook.- Marked As Answer byAltramarine Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:10 AM
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Hi,
Why don't you migrate your PF to SharePoint (WSS would just be fine). Read on....- http://www.quest.com/public-folder-migrator-for-sharepoint/
- http://www.tzunami.com/PRODUCTS/Pages/TDExchangePublicFolders.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/01/updated-exchange-public-folder-vs-sharepoint-guidance.aspx
- http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/93127/sharepoint-and-public-folders-part-2-migration-options.html
Nitin Gupta (gupnit) | MVP - Exchange | http://www.nitingupta.in/blogs- Thank you for your response Nitin.
SharePoint is an awesome solution but its more of a long run solution for what the company needs at the moment. We will go with Sharepoint next year most likely.
I think i am going to resort to saving each project to its respective PST file.
My question is: Is there a script of some sort to automate this PST extraction process? I mean we have a ton of folders within the Public folders. Exporting each one by hand will take at least a week. There must be another way.
Much thanks!- Unmarked As Answer byAltramarine Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:10 AM
- Marked As Answer byAltramarine Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:10 AM
YOu may find it easier to purchase 3rd party software from someone like http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/ or http://www.quest.com/recovery-manager-for-exchange/
( Other 3rd party products: http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping_admin.asp)
and use them to export to a pst or alternatively, build a forest in the lab, name the lab Exchange Org and Admin Group etc.. the same exact name as production, restore a copy of the 2003 public folder store and you'll always be able to access the data from there as needed and export it to a pst throught Outlook.- Marked As Answer byAltramarine Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:10 AM
Thanks Andy,
I'm looking through the website you provided. I just realized that there are at least 1000 of folders to be archived, thats abit too much time to spend on exporting every single one. And export feature does not allow selecting more than one folder which leaves me no choice but to look for a 3d party utility that you mentioned above.- Hi Guys,
I keep on narrowing what i really need done.
Is there a 3rd party tool you are aware of that allows you to Batch export folders from Outlook(in my case public folders) into their own respective pst files? so if i had 1000 folders, the batch would export 1000 pst files(named the same as the folder)
Thanks, After searched on the web, I haven’t found any 3rd party software that can do such task. Unfortunately, you may have to do it manually
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