Is there any guidance and/or utilities available for removing all traces of Exchange 2003 from Active Directory after a successful Office 365 conversion has been taken place? I have a client that recently did this. Their two Exchange 2003 servers have been retired (off the network and shut down), so they'd like to know how clean up any remnants of Exchange 2003 from their environment that may still be lingering. Thanks in advance.Bill Thacker

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:05:35 +0000, Bill Thacker wrote: >Is there any guidance and/or utilities available for removing all traces of Exchange 2003 from Active Directory after a successful Office 365 conversion has been taken place? > >I have a client that recently did this. Their two Exchange 2003 servers have been retired (off the network and shut down), so they'd like to know how clean up any remnants of Exchange 2003 from their environment that may still be lingering. You can't. The schema will always have the extensions made when Exchange was installed. If all you want to do is remove the information from the configuration naming context then you can do that from ADSIEDIT. http://www.techhead.co.uk/removing-exchange-from-active-directory --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi Bill, If you want to remove Exchange 2003 from AD, here are some related documents for you: How to completely remove Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 from Active Directory http://support.microsoft.com/kb/273478 How to completely remove a Exchange server or the entire Exchange organization http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/remove-exchange-server-entire-exchange-organization.html Thanks, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:05:35 +0000, Bill Thacker wrote: >Is there any guidance and/or utilities available for removing all traces of Exchange 2003 from Active Directory after a successful Office 365 conversion has been taken place? > >I have a client that recently did this. Their two Exchange 2003 servers have been retired (off the network and shut down), so they'd like to know how clean up any remnants of Exchange 2003 from their environment that may still be lingering. You can't. The schema will always have the extensions made when Exchange was installed. If all you want to do is remove the information from the configuration naming context then you can do that from ADSIEDIT. http://www.techhead.co.uk/removing-exchange-from-active-directory --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi Bill, If you want to remove Exchange 2003 from AD, here are some related documents for you: How to completely remove Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 from Active Directory http://support.microsoft.com/kb/273478 How to completely remove a Exchange server or the entire Exchange organization http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/remove-exchange-server-entire-exchange-organization.html Thanks, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support

Hello, Any updates on this issue? Thanks, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contacttngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support