Manual Remove of Exchange from other server

[zodiaczz]

Hello all,

Here is the situation.. Had a failing server with Exchange 2003 on it, we managed to transfer the mailboxes, public folders and roles to another exchange server in the organization. The system finally gave up and the motherboard crashed and we didnt have the time to official remove the exchange server off the organization.

Is there a manual way to do it via the working server to remove all references to the old server? A Q article out there?

 

[MarkArnold]

Walk through this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833396

which will talk you through.

Be damn careful though. If you have more than one DC shut one of them down before. The number of times the word "whoops" is uttered after people dive in with ADSIEDIT is scary. If you delete something by accident in ADSIEDIT and don't have the 3rd party tools to put records back then it's all over.

 

[NJForensics]

That article is right on... all you really need to do is make sure schedule / free busy, public folders, routing group master is on the new exchange server.

After that ... just use ADSIEDIT

go to Configuration > Services > Microsoft Exchange > First Administrative Group > Servers > and delete the server object referencing the old exchange server.

If the old exchange server was a DC ... you just need to verify the roles on completely off of that box and run NTDSUTIL /METADATA CLEANUP to remove AD references to the old server.

Chris Clancy, EnCE,CCE

http://www.milestechnologies.com

" ... when you can't figure out what the problem is, find out what it isn't.... "