I say .. ADSI - delete the Exchange node , in ADUC delete the server objects... DONE...
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Completely Removing Exchange >From Add/Remove programs, select Exchange and then click Uninstall. AS part of the uninstall process, it will ask for the CD. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Completely Removing Exchange And after asking him, he hasn't tried the uninstall using the CD yet, just read that he had to move the RUS somewhere and knew he can't do that since it will be the last server. Should he just throw the disk in and run it? Maybe there is an option for removing the last Exchange server? He is already evicting the passive node of the cluster, so it will be down to the one. If an uninstall path does exist, does that get rid of all the Org info in AD, or just remove Exchange-related AD info for the one server? He is documenting the org info just in case they ever need it again. Mostly I think he wants to make sure that anything he does to remove the last Exchange server does not affect the existing e-mail address information on their AD accounts (which are no longer in Exchange, but I have no idea if they removed the attributes), which is being using with a directory sync to Google apps. -B From: Bonnie Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Completely Removing Exchange He was saying something about not being able to run the uninstaller because there is no server to move the RUS to.. not sure if he's tried it yet though--just doing a lot of reading first. I do believe that is the same link he was looking at. 's been so long since I've looked at 2k3, and we were never trying to remove completely--did a swing to 2k7. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:04 PM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Just perform an uninstall, it will want the CD in the drive and be done with it. If there is a problem.. Refer... http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Remove-Exchange-server-entire-Exchange-organization.html Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.com<http://www.acts360.com/> P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax From: Bonnie Miller [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:51 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Completely Removing Exchange Where my DH works, they have completed a migration of all mail from an old Exchange 2003 A/P cluster to Google Apps. There are no more mailboxes on the server(s) and no mail services are using or otherwise routing through the Exchange server(s). He is wondering if there could be any problems in the future if they just turn off the old server(s) at this point in time and leave the Org info in their AD? For example, if 5 years down the road they change and go to Exchange 2016 or something, could this be an issue? I guess there is a procedure to remove the org info from AD, but he's not sure if it's worth doing. Thanks for any info or links. -Bonnie --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
