Good advice... And I want to say thanks for all the really good advice you provide. It is very helpful.
More... however. I found this blog, and looked in using adsiedit - and the server is gone from the servers list. Were you able to uninstall it cleanly? Your other posts mentioned that you did. "I've been able to cleanly uninstall Exchange 2003 from our BES server." If so you are fine. If you do not see the server object in adsiedit then you are good. 1.Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows 2000 Support Tools, point to Tools, and then click ADSI Edit. 2. Expand each of the following items: Configuration Container CN=Configuration, DC=Domain_Name,DC=com CN=Services CN=Microsoft Exchange CN=Your_Organization_Name CN=Administrative Groups CN=Your_Administrative_Group_Name_Or_Exchange5.5_Site_Name CN=Servers If you do not see your server here you are fine. James Chong (MVP) MCITP | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+, Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ex2003 - removing retiring server AD has to be manually edited. To the best of my knowledge, no Exchange MVP or Microsoft person or other person has published how to do that. It's dangerous. Back to my initial recommendation: My recommendation to you at this point would be to call PSS/CSS. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Stringham, Steven [mailto:sstri...@lrlaw.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 3:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ex2003 - removing retiring server Ok, further updates on this. After deleting datastores, I also retired the disk space associated with those datastores. One of these was the i:\ drive. I brought the server back up and tried to remove other programs, and also had problems. It seems that it wanted a temp folder on the i:\ drive - and that the uninstalls would not launch until I recreated that drive. I was then able to remove the management portion of ex2003 - but because the server is no longer in the exchange 2003 tree, it can't seem to remove the actual exchange components. After a couple of errors with "active sync" and "OWA" it fails with the following information. I can't reinstall the server - because it thinks it is already installed. An invalid ADSI pathname was passed. ID no: 80005000 Microsoft Exchange Setup Any ideas? FYI - I also retired completely another server in the bunch properly by doing the uninstall. ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]<mailto:[mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ex2003 - removing retiring server You don't have a clean removal if you didn't run the uninstaller. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Stringham, Steven [mailto:sstri...@lrlaw.com]<mailto:[mailto:sstri...@lrlaw.com]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ex2003 - removing retiring server I have my 2010 tree in place (95% of my users are migrated). How can I tell if I have a "clean" removal. If the server/datastores/etc. are not listed anymore in the exchange 2003 management tool, is there somewhere else to look? ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]<mailto:[mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ex2003 - removing retiring server Without a clean removal, you won't be able to install Exchange vNext without some significant AD work. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Stringham, Steven [mailto:sstri...@lrlaw.com]<mailto:[mailto:sstri...@lrlaw.com]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ex2003 - removing retiring server Actually, the services would start. They just would not mount the datastore for whatever reason. After I sent the email (of course) I just went in on that same server (all services stopped) and in the ex2003 admin console deleted the server from the tree of ex2003 servers. It gave me a warning, but it went away. I checked with another 2003 server, and it was gone.... So, I am going to turn the server off, and never bring it back online. I have at least another two to do. If I just remove it from the ex2003 tree - and kill the services from starting again, are there any issues? ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]<mailto:[mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:30 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ex2003 - removing retiring server You begin the removal from Add/Remove Programs, and then insert the original CD when it is called for. That's the correct procedure. If you can't remove the PF database the same as you removed the MB databases, then you have a problem. It sounds like you have exacerbated that problem. In order for the removal process to work, all Exchange services have to be started. It appears that you broke the services from starting, so you couldn't do the remove. Potentially, the easiest thing to do is figure out why the services won't start, and that may be as simple as moving all the PF files "somewhere else". But without more information I can't tell. While I suspect I could figure this out, get Exchange back up, and then get you uninstalled in a couple of hours, I'm booked solid this week. :) My recommendation to you at this point would be to call PSS/CSS. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Stringham, Steven [mailto:sstri...@lrlaw.com]<mailto:[mailto:sstri...@lrlaw.com]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Ex2003 - removing retiring server After migrating all the users off a EX2003sp2 server to 2010, I am trying to remove exchange from it so that I can retire this machine (all virtual). I let this system sit for several days in an off state to make sure no other systems were dependant, mail flowed, etc. I brought it back up, I removed all the datastores, and dismounted the public folder (after removing all the shared folders - duplicated elsewhere). No users on the system, no connection gateways, etc. I then tried to uninstall exchange from the add/remove programs menu. When I click on the "remove" button - it just sat there - doing nothing. I have since rebooted the server, and it will not mount the public folder datastore anymore. I tried creating a mailbox store, and it won't mount that. Restarting services does nothing. I tried running the setup program from the original CD - it says that it has a problem with this version of windows software (this is the non-sp2 code). I tried running the update program from a download of ex2003sp2 in the exchange/i386 directory. That runs, but disappears. I have stopped all ex2003 services, the antivirus, iis/et all, etc. Still, not able to start an uninstall. Bottom line, I have several 2003 servers that I will be needing to retire as I finish my migration to 2010. How do I kill these guys from my tree? Can I shut down the server, call it dead, and kill it's participation in any other way? 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