XADM: Internet Newsgroup Folder Gets Replicated Automatically Between Sites (229791)

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, configure the Internet Newsgroups public folder in the Exchange Administrator program to not replicate to these sites before creating the NNTP Server.

To accomplish this, do the following before configuring the NNTP Service:

1. Log on to the Exchange Administrator program as the service account.
2. Click on the Internet Newsgroups public folder under the Folders object, and on the File menu, click Properties.
3. Click on the Replicas tab, and on the right, under the Replicate Folder to section, notice the other sites listed.
4. Remove any replicas on the right by selecting the site or server and clicking Remove.
5. Do this for all sites that do not want the replicated content from the NNTP Service.
6. Click OK when you are finished.

To accomplish this if the NNTP Service has already been configured:

1. Log on to the Exchange Administrator program as the service account.
2. Click on the Internet Newsgroups public folder under the Folders object, and on the File menu, click Properties.
3. Click on the Replicas tab, and on the right, under the Replicate Folder to section, notice the other sites listed.
4. Remove any replicas on the right by selecting the site or server and clicking Remove.
5. Do this for all sites that do not want the replicated content from the NNTP Service.
6. Click Apply, then click on the General tab, and click to select the Propagate these properties to all subfolders check box.
7. Click Apply, and make sure the Replicas check box is selected in the subfolder properties dialog box, and then click OK for the changes on all subfolders to take place.

You can remove the replicas, but as soon as a Public folder is modified and replication occurs, the replicas will come back. This does not have to be an Internet Newsgroups folder. If a normal Public folder is created, deleted, or modified and replication occurs, the replicas will come back. However, if you remove the replicas and click Propagate these properties to all subfolders, the replicas will come back, but the subfolders will not. So, none of the content will be replicated, only the server names from the replica list.