Remove Exchange 2007 servers...
Hi
We have a mail platform with Exchange 2007/2013. We are going to delete the Exchange 2007 servers (all mailboxes are already in Exchange 2013) with the help of the following note: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/ Article.TECH50256
When doing step 3 (Look up EV's record of mailboxes associated with this ExchangeServerIdentity) we find thousands of entries corresponding to mailboxes that no longer exist. After consulting, support tell us that we must delete the ExchangemailboxEntry table, which would leave us with the historical information of elements that no longer exist, and that we need to perform other tasks that we have automated.
Has anyone else been through this? It seems incredible that this is the only solution (obviously we can not leave the servers on Exchange 2007 turned on, and we need this historical information).
Thanks and regards.
Hello,
Advocate of the devil here :-)
EV does what it is supposed to do. Remove the entries connected to a server you want to remove. It is not EV (Veritas's) concern you target that specific table with custom queries/processes. They (Veritas) need to make sure that the product functions as intended, and performs well.
End advocate of the devil :-)
You have 2 choices as far as I can tell. Make a copy of the table (or the directory database) and target that in your processes/queries.
Or, leave the targets in. Remove the tasks for those targets, but leave the targets. As long as the target Exchange remains, the ExchangeMailboxentry table is not having records deleted. It does not matter if the target exists physically (or virtually now-a-days) in the network. Just leave the name in the console.
Hey folks,
From experience, you can upgrade (you can even leave the Exchange 2007 tasks). The only thing is that EV 12 will not be able to archive from Exchange 2007. This is the only limitation.