If the VMs that Exchange was installed on, were not used by anything else, do I still need to uninstall via Add/Remove programs? I'm thinking I should, just to be safe, but my coworker is just wanting to shut down the VMs and remove from disk.
Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] RE: Uninstalling Exchange environment If you think that there is ever any chance that Exchange will come back on-site, then you should cleanly remove Exchange. Leave the AD groups online. Ignore them. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 12:02 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] Uninstalling Exchange environment Now that we've been force migrated up to the state's O365 implementation, I've been looking into how to go about removing my on-prem Exchange. First thought was to simply shut down the servers, and archive the vmdks, since they're all virtual. Second thought was to use Add/Remove Programs and uninstall Exchange first, then just dump the VMs. But my concern is the schema changes, and the Exchange security groups OU. If I uninstall through Add/Remove, does that last one go out and clean up AD? Or is there something else that will need to be done as well? Or, do I need to keep the AD stuff, since we're connecting to the cloud solution, and managing all our mailboxes through ADUC and ADModify? Thanks, Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284
