Hi,I had an old Exchange Server 2010 that's Hard Drive crashed and nothing was recoverable. I got a new hard drive and tried to Install Exchange Server 2013 and it say this:

I have followed every website to try to do a Manuel  Uninstall but no luck still gives my this error?? I tried to remove it in the ADSI:

But this computer doesn't exist anywhere in the Active Directory, I can't seem to find any trace of it. If there is a simple solution to this please let me know ASAP.

Regards,

Zac

Hi,

you are looking into Default  naming context instead of Configuration partition for Services.

Edit ADSI and connect to configuration partition from the drop down, then navigate to CN=Services,.... you will find your exchange server information

Its not supported to remove an Exchange 2010 server using adsiedit. I would stop right there and do no further damage.

Instead, recover the old server using the supported method:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dd876880(v=exchg.141).aspx

Then , if you decide to remove it, you can run Add/Remove Programs and uninstall gracefully.

Thanks, I'll Look into that. But the whole Hard Drive had no recoverable information on it (Good for the Trash). Even if I follow the steps from the website above (Recover a lost server section) on the new Hard Drive with the exact same install, would it still work.

Regards,

Zac

Thanks, I'll Look into that. But the whole Hard Drive had no recoverable information on it (Good for the Trash). Even if I follow the steps from the website above (Recover a lost server section) on the new Hard Drive with the exact same install, would it still work.

Regards,

Zac

As long as the server objects are in AD, yes.  The recoverserver option was designed for exactly the scenario you have.

I now get an Error when running the "setup /m:RecoverServer", about a HubTransport.

The Old Exchange Server's Hard Drive was running "Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard" and that is what I've installed on the new hard drive with the exact same install I used on the old HD.

I have also tried to go to Control Panel and Uninstall Hub Transport Role and get this error:

Regards,

Zac

• Edited by ZDog01 23 hours 31 minutes ago New Info

I now get an Error when running the "setup /m:RecoverServer", about a HubTransport.

The Old Exchange Server's Hard Drive was running "Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard" and that is what I've installed on the new hard drive with the exact same install I used on the old HD.

I have also tried to go to Control Panel and Uninstall Hub Transport Role and get this error:

Regards,

Zac

• Edited by ZDog01 Sunday, August 30, 2015 7:57 AM New Info

I now get an Error when running the "setup /m:RecoverServer", about a HubTransport.

The Old Exchange Server's Hard Drive was running "Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard" and that is what I've installed on the new hard drive with the exact same install I used on the old HD.

I have also tried to go to Control Panel and Uninstall Hub Transport Role and get this error:

Regards,

Zac

• Edited by ZDog01 Sunday, August 30, 2015 7:57 AM New Info

I now get an Error when running the "setup /m:RecoverServer", about a HubTransport.

The Old Exchange Server's Hard Drive was running "Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard" and that is what I've installed on the new hard drive with the exact same install I used on the old HD.

I have also tried to go to Control Panel and Uninstall Hub Transport Role and get this error:

Regards,

Zac

Please see the log at: http://pastebin.com/qAavXhTQ

It might be worth adding that I've got nothing in my Active Directory for Exchange Server, I delete it as per what a website told me.

Regards,

Zac

• Edited by ZDog01 9 hours 20 minutes ago

Wait. you removed the server object in AD? What did you delete?

Please see the log at: http://pastebin.com/qAavXhTQ

It might be worth adding that I've got nothing in my Active Directory for Exchange Server, I delete it as per what a website told me.

Regards,

Zac

• Edited by ZDog01 Sunday, August 30, 2015 10:08 PM

Please see the log at: http://pastebin.com/qAavXhTQ

It might be worth adding that I've got nothing in my Active Directory for Exchange Server, I delete it as per what a website told me.

Regards,

Zac

• Edited by ZDog01 Sunday, August 30, 2015 10:08 PM

Hi,

I understand you have the issue when uninstalling the exchange.

According to the error,I have searched the below article :

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/951183

In addiction, I have found a similar thread for your reference:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/52a7e8a7-6c87-41e3-99ab-be9846aaec09/exchage-2010-mailbox-role-install-error

Regards,

David 

I Removed anything to do with Exchange Server such as the Exchange Server Organization Folder, System Mailbox User etc...

Regards,

Zac

Hi David,

I did what was in the first website just then and that's now given me a new error when I uninstall Hub Transport:

Regards,

Zac

Hi,

According to the error, please make sure there is no mailbox located in this mailbox database.

We can use Get-Mailbox -Database <name> | fl to check it.

If the commands above returns nothing, it is most likely Soft Deleted Mailboxes that are still present on this database.

Remove-StoreMailbox -Database <name> -Identity user1 -MailboxState SoftDeleted

More detailed information, please refer to these below links

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff829913%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2014/03/17/this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes.aspx

Regards,

David 

• Edited by ZDog01 20 hours 40 minutes ago

I Removed anything to do with Exchange Server such as the Exchange Server Organization Folder, System Mailbox User etc...

Regards,

Zac

Sorry I should of added these in the first place;

This isn't from my Server but the images will give an idea.

In the first Picture you can see the Folder called "Microsoft Exchange Security Groups" & "Microsoft Exchange Security Objects", they were both deleted

In picture 2 the highlighted objects we're deleted too

Regards,

Zac

• Edited by ZDog01 20 hours 2 minutes ago

Ok, nothing should have been deleted from AD. You can try re-running setup/prepareAD and setup/preparedomain again, but Im not sure what other damage has been done. You may want to consider opening a case with Microsoft support.

Are these production mailboxes or were you just testing something? Either way, Exchange relies on those g

• Edited by ZDog01 Monday, August 31, 2015 10:48 AM

Sorry I should of added these in the first place;

This isn't from my Server but the images will give an idea.

In the first Picture you can see the Folder called "Microsoft Exchange Security Groups" & "Microsoft Exchange Security Objects", they were both deleted

In picture 2 the highlighted objects we're deleted too

Regards,

Zac

• Edited by ZDog01 Monday, August 31, 2015 11:26 AM

Hi,

About the error, please refer to the below official document to fix it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3063897

Regards,

David 

Hi,

I have now moved the Windows Server up to 2012 R2 and have tried to Install Exchange 2010 on it and have come across this error when installing with /m:recoverserver

and on my domain controller, when I run /preparead I get this error:

I have tried to remove this from ADSI and it then gives this error:

Regards,

Zac