Yes, according to this article it looks like it. Still
wondering why you then need to have to the necessary rights on the
Administrative Group in order to uninstall Exchange.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick
Sent: woensdag 7 juni 2006 1:24
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Uninstalling Exchange - how does this modify AD, what alters in AD
In theory, you *could* just remove it from ESM if you believe this
article.
On 6/6/06, Victor W.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lately I have been thinking about the following:What happens actually in Active Directory and what changes in it, while or after having uninstalled Exchange.I am asking this because usually when I uninstall an Exhange server, I do this according to the KB articles from Microsoft i.e. "Ho w to remove the first Exhange server".After that I insert the Exchange 2003 cd and do a 'remove components' (in case of Exchange 2000 I remove it from within Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel).After having done that I go into ESM and delete the server object from there.Recently I have had a customer asking me to remove his first Exhange server and transfer everything to another Exchange server. So I went along and followed the KB article up to the point where I had to uninstall Exhange. Everything went fine.After that, before I wanted to uninstall Exchange, I stopped the Exchange services and left this so for a day, just to be sure kept on running right without the Exhange services on the old server running.This also went fine. I then left the instruction with the customer how to uninstall Exchange and delete the server object from within ESM. They want to do something themselves also, they have their own IT department :-).Instead of doing that, they simply switched the server off and told me this a couple of days later.I offcourse told them that Exchange needed to be uninstalled the way Microsoft says so but now they want me to somehow prove what will happen if they do it as they have always done it, simply remove the server object from within ESM and not uninstalling Exchange from the server at all.This Exchange Organisation exists of several servers and several Administrative Groups.I know that in order to uninstall Exchange you need the necessary rights on the Administrative Group the server is in, so I guess that during the uninstall, the server 'unties' itself from that Administrative Group.But what happens if you dont do this, are you then really stuck with pieces in AD of the 'not properly uninstalled server'?Lets ssay you would not uninstall Exchange but you will remove the server object from within ESM and then, much later you would bring that same server, not uninstalled, online again. I guess you could end up with messy thing then. But I dont think Microsoft says to uninstall Exchange because of this reason only.Is there a program for AD like there is 'Snapshot' for the Windows registry. A program which creates a 'before' and 'after' picture.Or am I now thinking too complex?Can anybody who can shed some light on what exactly is altered in AD when doing an uninstall of an an Exchange server?
