Uninstalling first Exchange

15 Mar 2006 5:53 PM

Bruce

I am in the process of removing the first Exchange server from our
Domain/Forest. It was a 5.5 server and is now a 2003 server. I built a
second server, but when I stopped the Exchange services and IIS services on
the first machine, I noticed some mail sent from a public folder to a
distribution list, was not being delivered right away. I noticed the IIS and
smtp service had restarted on the first machine.

When I checked public folder replication, I noticed the highest level still
has both Exchange servers, but I can't remove replication from this folder.
All subfolders have had replication turned off, and only going to the new
server. How can I completey remove the first server?

15 Mar 2006 7:12 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:53:29 -0800, Bruce
<Br***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am in the process of removing the first Exchange server from our
>Domain/Forest. It was a 5.5 server and is now a 2003 server. I built a
>second server, but when I stopped the Exchange services and IIS services on
>the first machine, I noticed some mail sent from a public folder to a
>distribution list, was not being delivered right away. I noticed the IIS and
>smtp service had restarted on the first machine.
>
>When I checked public folder replication, I noticed the highest level still
>has both Exchange servers, but I can't remove replication from this folder.
>All subfolders have had replication turned off, and only going to the new
>server. How can I completey remove the first server?

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=822931 for removing
this server properly.
Any problems just post back here in a new thread.