Sail Through Public Folder Migration

Using pfMigrate
Although the manual process described earlier works well, using it to move many top-level public folders can be tedious. To automate the migration process, Microsoft supplies the Public Folder Migration Tool (pfmigrate.wsf) on the Exchange 2003 CD-ROM in the \support\exdeploy folder. pfMigrate is a command-line script that lets you create replicas of user and system public folders. You can use pfMigrate to create replicas only on a new server and within a routing group. Furthermore, you must execute pfMigrate from an Exchange Administrator account that has administrator permissions to either the public folders you're moving or higher in the public folder hierarchy.

To generate a report that shows how many public folders are on an Exchange server, you can run pfMigrate with the /r parameter. If neither the source nor target server is an Exchange 2003 system, you must use the /wmi switch to specify an Exchange 2003 server on your network that can supply Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) services because Exchange modifies WMI counters during the move operation. . . .