• Proposed as answer by Vishwanath.S 15 hours 59 minutes ago
• Unproposed as answer by EDWin Duran Ospina 15 hours 39 minutes ago

Dear,

Just I enter a company and have the following scheme:

5 servers Exchange.

The platform is as follows:

4 on Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit

1 on Windows 2003 (NO LONGER EXIST ON THE PLATFORM)

In the four they have Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP3 RU 5.

My question is:

As sack Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2003? Because as physical server no longer exists?

Each I generate a report, make any changes, whatever the server name appears only 2003 made.

Hopefully options and also remember that it is a platform production and want to be sure the steps for Leaving no mail.

Pending any questions or answers.

Dear,
It should be done by ADSIEdit. is more is that the path that is in on:
Configuration> Services> Microsoft Exchange> companyname> Administrative Group> GroupName.
Alli see that the server appears.
My question is:
If I delete it, as I can do if something could fail to return as it was?
Before I check if that server as even fulfill any function?
What is the safest procedure to remove it?

• Proposed as answer by Vishwanath.S Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:30 PM
• Unproposed as answer by EDWin Duran Ospina Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:50 PM

• Proposed as answer by Vishwanath.S Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:30 PM
• Unproposed as answer by EDWin Duran Ospina Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:50 PM

Hi,

I understand you want to remove Exchange 2003 in your organization.

I suggest we can refer to the below article to complete the decommission.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288905(v=exchg.80).aspx

Hope it helps.

Regards,

David

Hi,

I want to remove, but the server no longer exists or physical or virtual. I do only every query through GET- command; the server appears.
Now we move to Exchange Server 2013. But an observation is that there should be nothing 2003.
As I take all these records?
And delete everything from Exchange 2003, so the URL does not serve me.
Thank you very much for the reply. Keep waiting another informancion.

Even though it is possible to remove via ADSIEDIT that is strongly discouraged unless you are re-installing the same server.

Recommended to recover the server, and then gracefully uninstall using add/remove programs.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/833396

If you cannot install or run Exchange System Manager, you can use the Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) Edit snap-in to  manually remove enough of the server attributes so that you can  try a successful reinstallation. This method does not perform cleanups of references to the server object outside the server's own container. We do not recommend that you use this method unless you intend to immediately reinstall the server in the same administrative group. This is because you may have to manually remove or edit many attributes on objects throughout Active Directory