Hello,

I have a dead Exchange Server 2003 which was installed on Windows 2000 Advanced Server.  I would like to remove it from my domain which consisted of Windows 2003 Server also.  How do I go about doing that since i'm upgrading  my domain to 2008 & 2013 Servers?

Thanks for any suggestions you may make.

• Moved by Jason Johnston [MSFT]Microsoft employee Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:48 PM Not a development question.

Hi,

Please check the article given sneff, I will add some related information.

As you said it is a dead exchange server , then you can just delete server from ESM (right click on server and select delete), after that proceed with remove server object from active directory using ADSI. Expand the following items:

Configuration Container

CN=Configuration, DC=<var>Domain_Name</var>,DC=com

CN=Services

CN=Microsoft Exchange

CN=<var>Your_Organization_Name</var>

CN=Administrative Groups

CN=<var>Your_Administrative_Group_Name_Or_Exchange5.5_Site_Name</var>

CN=Servers

Note In this procedure, <var>Domain_Name</var> represents the name of your domain, <var>Your_Organization_Name</var> represents the name of your organization, and <var>Your_Administrative_Group_Name_Or_Exchange5.5_Site_Name</var> represents for the name of your administrative group or Exchange Server 5.5 site.

Right-click the Exchange Server 2003 server object, and then click Delete.

Click Yes in every adsiedit dialog box that prompts you to confirm the deletion.

Best Regards,

David

• Marked as answer by Sherrie68 10 hours 38 minutes ago

Success!   It works.   

Thanks!