Moving All Mailboxes and Public Folder Content

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After backing up data, you must move any mailboxes residing on the Exchange Virtual Server to another server in your Exchange organization. Any mailboxes that are not moved to another server must be deleted. If mailboxes remain on an Exchange Virtual Server, you will not be able to completely delete the Exchange Virtual Server, and the server object remains in the Microsoft Active Directory® directory service, although you succeeded in deleting the Exchange System Attendant resource.

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For more information about moving mailboxes, see "Managing Mailbox Stores and Public Folder Stores." For information about moving lots of mailboxes, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 297393, "HOWTO: Programmatically Move an Exchange 2000 Mailbox Using CDOEXM in Visual C++."

For detailed instructions about moving mailboxes, see How to Move Mailboxes from One Exchange Virtual Server to Another Server.

In addition to moving mailboxes, you must move all public folder content from the server before removing the server. For detailed instructions, see How to Move Public Folder Content from One Exchange Virtual Server to Another Server.