I am (slowly) performing an upgrade from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, and I'm stopped at the point of confusion.  My 2 servers:

 WTW-EX2010 - Exchange 2010, New server. Exchange 2010, all mailboxes have been migrated

 WTW-MAIL - Exchange 2007, Old server.  Still up and Exchange installed, Exchange services turned off.

 When users connect to Outlook internally, They are getting an expired certificate error from WTW-MAIL. Which is sort of expected, because the certificate for that server did indeed expire on the 22nd.  What I am not sure of is why it's checking that server in the first place.  I believe it's because of the old server is still listed under get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory :

[PS] C:\Users\administrator.WTWARCH\Desktop>get-webservicesvirtualdirectory

Name                                  Server                                  InternalUrl
----                                      ------                                  -----------
EWS (Default Web Site)      WTW-MAIL                             https://mail.wtwarch.com/ews/exchang...
EWS (Default Web Site)       WTW-EX2010                        https://wtw-ex2010.wtwarch.com/EWS/E...

[PS] C:\Users\administrator.WTWARCH\Desktop>

  I have not been able to determine how to best resolve this. I don't think I need the web services running on wtw-mail server. That server will be shut down soon.  Do I have to res-set everything up with set-WebServicesVirtual directory?  Can I just shut down IIS on the wtw-mail machine and be done with it? Not sure the proper way to proceed here, and thought I would ask for advice before tinkering.

Thanks for any information

 Jim Helfer

 

 

 

 

Did you try to remove EWS from old server by using remove-webservicesvirtualdirectory cmdlet? See here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124231(v=exchg.141).aspx

 

  I did not try this.   This command gives me a scary confirmation message when I run it:

WARNING: Outlook Web App won't function correctly if you remove the Exchange Web Services virtual directory
"wtw-mail\ews (Default web site)". To disable Exchange Web Services without blocking access to Outlook Web App, you can
 use "Set-CASMailbox -Identity <user> -EwsEnabled:$false" or "Set-OrganizationConfig -Identity <org>
-EwsEnabled:$false".

  However, since I have shut down IIS on WTW-MAIL for over an hour and OWA still works and my phone is still getting mail pushed, I am not inclined to think that it's not going to be a problem.

 But I don't really know because I haven't done this before, and don't know precisely how this all works together.

hello dear...

if u r interested in recreating OWA virtual directory... here is the knowledge based tutorial

http://exchangeshare.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/how-to-recreate-owa-virtual-directory-exchange-2007/

and if you want to remove ... pls follow this :)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998589%28v=exchg.80%29.aspx

hope it helps.. pls save/backup states before you are running something new .. it helps in disaster recoveries :)

moreover ... the basic concept is explained in microsoft support:"

Use the Reset Client Access Virtual Directory wizard to reset a virtual directory on an Exchange Server 2010 Client Access server. When you reset a virtual directory, the virtual directory is removed and a new virtual directory with default settings is created.

Important:
Because a new virtual directory with default settings is created when you reset a virtual directory, you need to reconfigure a virtual directory after it's reset. By default, the settings for a virtual directory are copied to the Program Files/Microsoft/Exchange Server/V14 directory.|"

What Do You Want to Do?

 Thanks for the links, definitely useful.  Looks like a lot of my directories are still pointing to the old mail server, so it looks like that is something that will take just a bit more research to update manually.

Hi,

I'm not very sure what is your want, if you don't want to access owa or other virtual directory on IIS in old server, you can stop it .

Internet Information Services Manager>>right your server name>> stop

If you want to reset the virtual directory, you can refer to Suhail's advice.

If the issue is outlook still point to the old server, maybe you need to disable or shutdown the old server so that the outlook client can detect and connect the new server.

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