I have a site that had an existing, 2003 Exchange site on server 2003. We added a W2K8 with E2K7, migrated all the data and mailboxes.
The old exchange 2003 box was left in the site, and left on. It got forgotten until a power outage did it in. The system was restored from a restore point from prior to us coming into this site. Not a good idea I know, but what's done is done.
The server now thinks it has roles in the Exchange site. The exchange console sees itself and the E2K7 server, but the E2K7 server only sees itself in the site.
Most of the services are not working on the Exchange 2003 server. It was removed and re-added to the domain by a tech in order to resolve the prolem, making it worse, and now it seems to only be half in the domain.
I can't uninstall Exchange on the 2003 server because it still thinks its the bridge connector. I can't configure it to tell it its not the bridge connector because the services will not start up.
To make it worse, client PC's are stil attempting to connect to it, and because of the domain issues, it requires authentication, which doesn't work. I have tried recreating the local Mail profile and that doesn't work.
There really are no Exchange issues other than the client PC attempting to connect.
I know this is a mess. I love inheriting messes. Add to that my exchange knowledge/experience is not all that strong.
Any ideas on the best way to procede?
I am thinking it is going to involve forcfully removing it using adsi edit, and a hammer....
The old exchange 2003 box was left in the site, and left on. It got forgotten until a power outage did it in. The system was restored from a restore point from prior to us coming into this site. Not a good idea I know, but what's done is done.
The server now thinks it has roles in the Exchange site. The exchange console sees itself and the E2K7 server, but the E2K7 server only sees itself in the site.
Most of the services are not working on the Exchange 2003 server. It was removed and re-added to the domain by a tech in order to resolve the prolem, making it worse, and now it seems to only be half in the domain.
I can't uninstall Exchange on the 2003 server because it still thinks its the bridge connector. I can't configure it to tell it its not the bridge connector because the services will not start up.
To make it worse, client PC's are stil attempting to connect to it, and because of the domain issues, it requires authentication, which doesn't work. I have tried recreating the local Mail profile and that doesn't work.
There really are no Exchange issues other than the client PC attempting to connect.
I know this is a mess. I love inheriting messes. Add to that my exchange knowledge/experience is not all that strong.
Any ideas on the best way to procede?
I am thinking it is going to involve forcfully removing it using adsi edit, and a hammer....