Replication(proposed process) - Run MoveAllReplicas PS script to set the replicas from source to destination.
- Turn up repilcation logging and/or wait minutes, hours, days (we waited at least a week to be extra safe)
- Run the following command on the destination server to check out the origin server:
Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Format-Table Name, OriginatingServer - Run the following command on the destination server to check out the item count:
Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Get-PublicFolderStatistics - Run the previous command on the source server to see that folders don't exist on that server.
And I believe that is all based on the advice in the replication blog post that we should watch item counts. I would appreciate any pointers if there is anything else that we may have missed. Seems like the goal here is to monitor for PF replication to prepare for PF removal or just to make sure replication is working properly? For any particular folder, you can compare item counts to monitor progress, but that’ll get unwieldy pretty fast. Besides, the source server will remove the replica once the folder is done if you're removed the source server from the replica list. So, a better indication of progress is a periodic get-publicfolderstatistics on the source server. As the list shrinks, it’s making progress in removing the folders at the source. Doing the same on the destination and comparing item counts can show in-progress replication progress. Get-PublicFolderStatistics |fl FolderPath,ItemCount,AssociatedItemCount Typical output: FolderPath : schema-root\Default
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : SCHEDULE+ FREE BUSY\EX:/o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : OFFLINE ADDRESS BOOK\EX:/o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : schema-root\microsoft\exchangeV1
ItemCount : 340
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : StoreEvents{1E4B1ED9-6142-4344-99E6-85BD8DD920EA}\globalevents
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : StoreEvents{1E4B1ED9-6142-4344-99E6-85BD8DD920EA}\internal
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : schema-root\microsoft
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : OWAScratchPad{1E4B1ED9-6142-4344-99E6-85BD8DD920EA}
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : schema-root
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : StoreEvents{1E4B1ED9-6142-4344-99E6-85BD8DD920EA}
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 FolderPath : OFFLINE ADDRESS BOOK\/o=First Organization/cn=addrlists/cn=oabs/cn=Default Offline Address Book
ItemCount : 0
AssociatedItemCount : 0 | 
