Friday 15 February 2013

LB 2003 to 2010 Exchange Migration p4

I went in to remove the Exchange 2003 server from the LB office and have the following observations.

The public folders went fairly smoothly, in that the "MoveAllReplicas" script seemed to do its job and clear the old server of all its replicas.

A new internet connector needed to be created for internet-bound email because ownership can't be given to the new server (due to it being in a different routing group).

The RUS service needs to be handed to the new server, which I didn't mention in past posts.

So after removing one system e-mail account (something to do with Free / Busy, but not sure what since this functionality should be derived from public folders...) the 2003 uninstall was ready to proceed. And so it did, but it also failed quite spectacularly and so, outlined below, is a guide on how to manually remove an orphaned Exchange 2003 server from AD:
  1. Go into ADSIedit and delete the server object.
You should be able to run the BPA with no errors, and if you do have errors then they can probably be fixed by copying and pasting the DN from one field, in AD, to another. Not graceful, but there you go.

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