Exchange 2003 to 2010 Upgrade, Error with Free/Busy folder replicas

I’ve been migrating some of our slower customers away from Exchange 2003 recently, and I ran into a issue that took me 3 days to figure out. I was getting the following erorr on the 2010 Server: Couldn't find an Exchange 2010 or later public folder server with a replica for the free/busy folder: EX:/O=FIRST ORGANIZATION/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP despite successfully running the AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 on the \NON_IPM_SUBTREE\ Top Public Folder. On the 2003 server, all folders, including the Free/Busy folders displayed two replicas, one for 2003 and one for 2010.

I eventually moved all replicas from the 2003 server and removed the PF database hoping that it would force any replicas that remained and perhaps weren’t being displayed properly over to the 2010 server, and I was prompted to do just that, but still I continued to receive the error stated above.

The reason that I’m posting this is not that it’s a new issue, it seems like it’s a pretty common problem, but rather the hard time I had finding the correct resolution online. Perhaps my search terms were off, but in case The way to solve this is as follows:

On the 2010 server, run the following commands:

1) Set-PublicFolder -Replicas '2010 Public Folder Database' -Identity '\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\SCHEDULE+ FREE BUSY\EX:/o=First Organization/ou=First Administrative Group'

and then verify it worked:

2) Get-publicfolder -recurse '\Non_IPM_SubTree\SCHEDULE+ FREE BUSY\EX:/o=First Organization/ou=First Administrative Group' |fl

3) restart the “Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants” service

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