the ntdsutil solution is ONLY for removing a DC from AD
Right. Sorry, in my pre-caffeinated haste I steered you to the ntdsutil
solution, when I should have referred you to the ADSI Edit metadata cleanup
as laid out in article 833396 in the section titled 'Remove the Exchange
2003 server from Active Directory'
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833396/en-us
I used this method myself a month ago to remove an Ex03 server that had gone
through all the steps of removing the first server. All the steps except
for the last one: unistalling Exchange. The machine died before I could do
that, leaving a ghostly presence in AD.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: The servers that wouldn't die
On 9/21/07, Tom Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
you need to remove these servers from AD as exchange was not cleanly
uninstalled.
runadsiedit.msc and remove them from the config NC
the ntdsutil solution is ONLY for removing a DC from AD.
On 9/21/07, Simon Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are getting the message about mailboxes, then you probably have
> mail enabled accounts that were never used but are pointing at those
> non-existent servers. You need to find those accounts and remove their
> Exchange attributes.
>
> At the end of my migration article
> (http://www.amset.info/exchange/migration.asp) I have the technique I
> usually use for finding these accounts.
>
> Simon.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Reboulet
> Sent: 21 September 2007 14:41
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: The servers that wouldn't die
>
> We have 3 Exchange servers that continue to appear in Exchange System
> Manager that no longer exist on our network. We've removed them some
> months ago: 1 was due to hardware failure, the other 2 were removed
> by uninstalling Exchange and then removing them from the domain.
>
> Despite this, they appear in the list on ESM. I've tried to
> delete/remove server from ESM, but get the error message:
>
> "One or more users currently use a mailbox store on this
> server. These users must be moved to a mailbox store on a different
> server or be mail disabled before uninstalling this server"
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't tell me what users are on this non-existent
> server.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> We're running Exchange 2003
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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