Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

re: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

Nagesh(MS) — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:06:03 GMT

You Rock as always Bill! Thanks for sharing your knowledge all the time.

re: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

Mark — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:48:36 GMT

Any Sybari Antigen users might want to check this one out as well if it's been in the last few months:-

http://www.sybari.com/DesktopModules/PortalFaqSearch/FaqItemViewer.aspx?TabID=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&ItemID=20001684

re: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

Christian Schindler — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:49:52 GMT

Thanks for the sharing your knowldege here!

I have such an issue at the moment where the hierarchy doesn't replicate to a newly introduced server. Message Tracking is as follows: A replication message is created, sent to the destination server, received, but there it get's not delivered to the store. It stucks in Advanced Queuing(according to message tracking). Any ideas on this? Is this an AD connectivity Problem?

re: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

Adam — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:58:04 GMT

Thanks Bill you truely are the Grand Poobah of Exchange.
Here's to the Lord Chief Justice of Hierarchy Replication, Master of the Content Replication and Groom of the Backfill Replication, as well as the Lord High of Everything Else Exchange.

re: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

Bill Long — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:08:46 GMT

Wow, and you haven't even seen part 2 yet, which is where things get a lot more interesting. :-)

Christian, that's pretty interesting. So tracking doesn't even reflect that it got to the categorizer? Sounds like we definitely need to be looking at the transport side of things. If you dig through the queues in ESM can you find it anywhere, like Awaiting Directory Lookup? If you look at the application log do you find any interesting transport events or errors at that time (you can see what time it was submitted to Advanced Queueing in the tracking output)? Anyway, that's the kind of stuff I'd be looking at.

re: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

jasperk — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:57:53 GMT

As always, great post Bill!

re: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

Christian Schindler — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:21:15 GMT

Thanks Bill!

I'll have look at the transport side...

Christian

re: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

Manju — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:31:22 GMT

To trouble shoot Transport issues:
- Enable Message tracking.
- Check SMTP vertual server configuration on both the sending and receiving server
- Use Regtrace and enable diagnostic logging while running the Regtrace
HKLM\systm\currentcontrolset\services\Msexchangetransport\Diagnostics to 7
- There are two scenario's. Look for AD permissions and Transport issues