Call Microsoft and have them help you with deleting it out of ADSIEdit. That was the end solution for me a few years ago. I REALLY suggest you do this with MS PSS on the phone.
ADSIEdit Configuration container Services Microsoft Exchange At a guess, from dim, hazy memory, you want to look at the Connections container, but I think there is another spot or two you need to validate as well. Spend the ~$300 on the PSS call. Steven On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Kat Collins<[email protected]> wrote: > Similar problem, removed the ghost user but I still have this server listed > as a member of the routing group in System Manager. It will not delete, so > I cannot remove the server... any other bright ideas? > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hell, if that were any more obvious, it would bite me in the a$$ ! >> Thanks >> for the tip ... Found one user in an obscure container ... This client is >> a >> law firm with about 6 variations of partnership containers ... >> >> THANKS >> >> >> >> Erik Goldoff >> IT Consultant >> Systems, Networks, & Security >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:23 PM >> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: how to get rid of phantom exchange server in ESM ? >> >> Fire up ADUC and add collums to the view and add 'Exchange Mailbox Store'. >> Then look around, you will find user or two that are assigned to that >> server. Happens with service accounts or other accounts that are copied >> and >> someone assigns them a mailbox but they never get email and never log into >> it. So you don't see the mailbox in ESM...but AD thinks it is there. >> >> Right click the offending account and remove Exchange Attributes. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:15 PM >> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: how to get rid of phantom exchange server in ESM ? >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Kat Collins - > > "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift - that's > why they call it the present." > > I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a > messy bloodbath." > > "The Email of the species is more powerful than the Mail!" > >
