Public Folder Migration (2016 to 2016)

Question

Good afternoon,

As I have read, Public Folders from Exchange 2013 onward were converted to a mailbox essentially which makes migrations much easier. If I'm going to need to migrate public folders from an existing 2016 environment to another Exchange 2016 environment, is it as straight forward as it seems? Any gotchas? Thanks for any input or feedback you may have.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/collaboration/public-folders/migrate-from-exchange-2013?view=exchserver-2019

Get-Mailbox -PublicFolder -Server Ex2013Mbx | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase Ex2016MbxDatabase

or

New-MoveRequest "Sales Public Folder Mailbox" -TargetDatabase Ex2016MbxDatabase

Thanks,

CWT

Answer 1

Hi @CWT ,
You could run the command line in the article you provided to move the public folder mailbox from Exchange 2016 to another Exchange 2016. But their functions are somewhat different.
In addition, the specific time required for the move is determined by the size and number of the public folder mailbox you move. During the move, the Public folder will be unavailable for a short time, so it is recommended that you move it when no one is using it.
1.If you run the following command, will move all public folder mailboxes on the specific Exchange server to target database at once.

Get-Mailbox -PublicFolder -Server <> | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase <>  

2.If you run the following command, will move the specific public folder mailbox to target database.

New-MoveRequest "<>" -TargetDatabase <>  

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