As it is entirely possible that someone else encounters the same problem, and finds this thread, it might be helpful and informative if you told us how you solved it :)
Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: 22 October 2013 19:03 To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] RE: Uninstalling Exchange environment I am saddened to report that I figured it out, and my on-prem Exchange environment is completely uninstalled and removed. A moment of silence please... Thanks, 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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 8:22 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Uninstalling Exchange environment So, I found a cmdlet that I thought was going to resolve my issue: Get-mailbox -database BBB -arbitration | remove-mailbox -arbitration -RemoveLastArbitrationMailboxAllowed However, when I run this command, I get this error: "The arbitration mailbox "domain/users/FederatedEmail.xxxx" is used by Exchange and can't be removed." I'm still getting the error saying there's no server running the MRS as well. Any tips? Joe From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 8:45 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Uninstalling Exchange environment I may have screwed up here. I got a little overzealous, and uninstalled all HT/CAS servers before any MBX servers. So, when I tried to move arbitration mailboxes, etc to empty out all mailbox databases except for one, there was no servers to do this. D'oh! I reinstalled the HT/CAS roles onto one of the boxes that previously held them. Now, when I try to move a mailbox, I get the error: "There aren't any available servers running the Mailbox Replication Service". I've verified that that service is indeed running on the HT/CAS box. I've also rebooted all boxes involved, still getting the error. I tried checking MRS health, and got this: [PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-ClientAccessServer | Test-MRSHealth RunspaceId : c908c300-117d-4086-b5db-3099f5c9a71f Check : ServiceCheck Passed : True Message : The Mailbox Replication Service is running. Identity : HQHTCS1 IsValid : True WARNING: An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: The WriteObject and WriteError methods cannot be called from outside the overrides of the BeginProcessing, ProcessRecord, and EndProcessing methods, and only from that same thread. Validate that the cmdlet makes these calls correctly, or please contact Microsoft Support Services. The WriteObject and WriteError methods cannot be called from outside the overrides of the BeginProcessing, ProcessRecor d, and EndProcessing methods, and only from that same thread. Validate that the cmdlet makes these calls correctly, or please contact Microsoft Support Services. + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Test-MRSHealth], PSInvalidOperationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation,Microsoft.Exchange.Monitoring.TestMRSHealth Any ideas? Joe From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:39 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Uninstalling Exchange environment You should cleanly uninstall Exchange. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 2:54 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Uninstalling Exchange environment 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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 5:32 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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? 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