Hi Folks,
We are in the process of decommissioning our legacy Exchange 2003 environment. Environment is basically as follows:
Site A (domain 1)
- First Exchange 2003 server (server A)
- Exchange 2010 DAG
Site B (domain 2)
- Second Exchange 2003 Server (server b)
- Exchange 2010 DAg (Diff DAG from above)
We have migrated all mailboxes and upgraded DLs, Address lists etc. We need to move the PF hierarchy which is hosted on server A to a 2010 mbx server in site A. We have added PF replicas to 2010 all servers. we need to remove the PF replicas from legacy server in Site B before we move the hierarchy.
Users whose mailboxes is on 2010 in site B should make PF connections for content there. Instead what we are seeing is Outlook clients still making a PF connection to legacy 2003 server (Server b). our fix is to recreate the user Outlook profile or disable and re-enable cached mode. This isn't something we can do company wide with 300+ clients.
I confirmed that the 2010 DBs have the respective 2010 PF DBs configured.
Our thoughts are that if we remove the replicas from server b, the clients should make PF connections to 2010 server in site B. But need to be sure this will happen. We would like to test this theory by dismounting the PF store on server b.
We have opened a ticket with MS and they are giving this lame excuse that since Exchange 2003 is virtualized on VMWare they cannot support it... really MS... you're gonna play that card?!
Any assistance is greatly appreciated!