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StefanoC66
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Dec 01, 2022

Decomission exchange 2010

We are decommissioning a 2-node DAG 2010 which has been migrated to a 2-node DAG 2016.

The public folders have been successfully migrated to ex2016.

Now we want to decommission the exchange 2010 nodes and the first task is to remove the public folder database

 

running the following command on exchange 2016 we see the the mailbox databases have the ex2010 public folder configured

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxDatabase -IncludePreExchange2013 | ft name,public*
Creating a new session for implicit remoting of "Get-MailboxDatabase" command...

Name                  PublicFolderDatabase
----                      --------------------
MBX2016_100GB Public Folder SRV10
MBX2016_8GB     Public Folder SRV10
MBX2016_2GB     Public Folder SRV10
MBX2016_5GB     Public Folder SRV10
PF2016DB            Public Folder SRV10

Following some thread and kb we tried to cleanup the "publicfolderdatabase" with the following command
Set-MailboxDatabase MBX2016_100GB -PublicFolderDatabase $null

but got the error

Cannot validate argument on parameter 'PublicFolderDatabase'. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then
try the command again.
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Set-MailboxDatabase], ParameterBindingValidationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Set-MailboxDatabase
+ PSComputerName : xxxx.xxxxx.xxx

 

So the question is how should we go on and dismiss the PF DAG ?

thanks

 

 

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