Been done. Thanks to our fellow list member, Neil Hobson's nice article on removing the last exchange server. thx Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: Senter, John To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:28 PM Subject: RE: Removing the last 2003 server
If you plan to just power off the server you may want to make sure you remove and PF replicas and delete the PF store; otherwise the other PF server will queue up all the updates. From: matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Removing the last 2003 server Thanks but I ran a check in adcu for left over items before the trial shutdown and it just showed the sys mailbox. I'm just going to shut the server down for a week or so then uninstall. thx M ----- Original Message ----- From: Kennedy, Jim To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:15 PM Subject: RE: Removing the last 2003 server Reading between the lines in your post..did you try to uninstall 2003 and get an error that said there were still mailboxes on the server? If that is your issue then that mailbox is not the problem. You don't need to move that one. You have a 'hidden' mailbox on that server. I usually find it is an account that was not supposed to have a mailbox, but when it was created the admin did check that box...and the account never got any email and never logged into exchange so there is no visible mailbox. But AD says there is... So it is that 'phantom' mailbox you are looking for. In ADUC add the column for the exchange store and you will see the account that is shown by AD to still be on that server. Right click the account and remove the Exchange attributes. From: matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Removing the last 2003 server I got tossed into a 2007 upgrade so far everything has gon text book but I'm down to the last steps of removing the first exchange server (2003) and the system mailbox is the only thing left on the server. I tried to move it but I get no options in the exchange task list in the 2003 sys manager. I don't know where to look for it in the 2007 sys manager. Can anyone give a boot in the right direction? TIA Matt ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
