Since the server no longer existed, at my client site, you have to wait a minute or two after selecting it by right click ( seemingly nothing happens at first... Then when the right click menu comes up, there is no Delete option ... Click All Tasks, then Remove Server
Again, you'll experience a non responsive delay, then either a confirmation of success, or like in my case, an error ... Mine was The server "serverold" cannot be removed because: -One or more users currently use a mailbox store on this server. These users must be moved to a mailbox store on a different serve or be mail disabled before uninstallting this server Doesn't say which user(s) ... And to everyone's best recollection at this client, this old server never was an exchange server, only had the exchange administrator installed on it. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -----Original Message----- From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 12:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: how to get rid of phantom exchange server in ESM ? Hello list, Anyone have any information to share on this? I'm also in the same situation. Thanks, Chris. ________________________________________ From: Erik Goldoff [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: how to get rid of phantom exchange server in ESM ? Got tasked with a weird client site ... They had Exchange 2000, recently upgraded domain to 2003r2 and added Exchange 2003 ... while preparing to remove original Exchange 2000 server, I see in the Exchange System Manager one other Exchange server, but that server no longer exists. In about 6 months I've never heard of that server for email, and their tech basically ripped it off the wire and got rid of the hardware. I ran the ntdsutil metadata cleanup to remove it from the domain controllers in AD, but still can't see how to remove it from Exchange... any tips or ideas here ? thanks Erik Goldoff
