Hi We have a corrupt exchange installation in our organization. We have 3 sites all with an exchange server. I have moved the users mailboxes in the faulty site to a database in one of the working exchange databases . The faulty exchange server is really bad ranging from WinRM , Certificate problems , Faulty Database and a few other problems. Can I uninstall this exchange as there are no user mailboxes using it and re install it ? Will this sort out the issues and please advise what the best procedure is.. I only have faulty backups.. rgds

It really depends on how well the exchange uninstall goes. The short answer is yes, you can remove Exchange and re-introduce a clean installation. However, you are probably going to run into issues uninstalling Exchange and will have to do some manual cleanup before re-introducing exchange on that box. What version of Exchange are you running? Jorge R. Diaz, PMP, CCNA, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS Senior Microsoft Consultant Planet Technologies, Inc. Check out My Blog!

Hi Jorge Thanks , Its Exchange 2010 SP1 ... Cheers

OK, so try to uninstall Exchange 2010 from that box and then I would recommend rebuilding that box. If the uninstall goes well then you shoudl be able to simply re-install Exchange on that box. Unfortunately there isn't really a supported method to manually remove Exchange 2010. Check out this article, someone else ran into a similar issue: http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=47700 Jorge R. Diaz, PMP, CCNA, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS Senior Microsoft Consultant Planet Technologies, Inc. Check out My Blog!

Hi It is not hard to uninstall exchange 2010. You can read this article about procedure. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332361.aspx You can also read many link about it. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/d058717e-bf70-4449-91c2-fa00b47d415f/ Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.