Migrating Exchange 5.5 Public Folders to Exchange Server 2003

Exchange mailboxes on the new Exchange Server 2003 systems must be able to access system and public folders, and subsequently require copies of the information that existed in those folders. Previously, in Exchange 2000, this required a fairly manual process of marking top-level public folders for replication and then propagating those changes down to subfolders . With Exchange Server 2003, however, a utility called pfmigrate automates this functionality. The options for pfmigrate are illustrated in Figure 15.10.

Figure 15.10. PFMigrate options.

The pfmigrate utility can be used in advance of a migration to make copies of public folders on the new servers; it then can be used later to remove the public folder copies from the old Exchange 5.5 servers.