Exchange Server Cookbook: For Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server

2017-07-07 02:10:07

Recipe 9.13. Controlling Public Folder Replication Settings

Problem

You want to change the settings used for public folder replication.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

To control replication settings on an individual folder, do the following:

Launch the Exchange System Manager (Exchange System Manager.msc).

In the left pane, expand the appropriate Administrative Groups container.

Expand the Folders and Public Folders nodes.

Right-click the target folder and select Properties.

Switch to the Replication tab as shown in Figure 9-6.

To change the replication schedule for the folder, click the Customize button. When the Schedule dialog box appears, fill in the replication schedule that you want applied to this folder, and click OK.

To control the priority of replication messages for this folder, use the Replication message priority pulldown. The setting you apply here is used by the public folder store and the SMTP engine to determine the relative priority of replication messages for all folders.

Click OK.

Figure 9-6. The Replication tab lets you provide folder-specific replication settings

Discussion

Each public folder store has its own replication settings. However, these settings may be overridden for individual folders. Note that the replicas can't have their own individual settings; when you make changes to the replication interval or priority for a folder, it applies to all replicas. Folder-specific settings override the corresponding settings on the public folder store.

The Exchange_PublicFolder WMI class allows you to specify custom replication settings by creating an array of start/stop times, then assigning them to the specific folder's ReplicationSchedule property.