Hello, I am creating a VM environment and created an Exchange server named (Exchange). The VM just stopped responding.. could not bring it up, would not ping, etc.. I ended up deleting the VM. I then created a new Exchange VM called "Exchange2013" and brought this up. everything seemed to install correctly but I could not get my client to connect. After searching around in the gui Exchange admin center I found that my domain remembers my old server "Exchange" and I see the server listed if I click on "servers" in the gui interface. I seemed to have made a bit of a mess. Is there a way to remove the reference to the old Exchange VM called "Exchange" and have everything work correctly with the new Exchange environment on "Exchange2013"? I'm not opposed to nuking everything and rebuilding the Exchange environment, but I'm not sure of all the secret places it lives in AD. Environment: All windows 2012 servers and ADExchange 2013 installed on server named "Exchange2013"Exchange 2013 server "Exchange" VM deleted. There are probably some steps I should have followed for removing from the Exchange organization that I did not follow. Thanks for your help -B

Was the initial install successful? Did it complete? I was going to recommend the "Recover Server" install option but it looks like you now have another Exchange install installed over that? You just might have to try to clean Active Directory which is usually something you want to avoid. Here's some information on where Exchange lives in Active Directory: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998561(v=exchg.150).aspx Don't worry about the Schema and Domain partitions. You can't delete anything from the Schema partition if you wanted to. References to the Exchange organization are stored in the Configuration partition. I don't think there is official MS documentation on how to do this (???) and believe it is unsupported (???). This blog provides some information on removing Exchange from AD using ADSIEdit but I cannot confirm that the information is correct: http://memphistech.net/?p=264 Or here, for previous versions: http://blog.dargel.at/2012/02/23/remove-legacy-exchange-server-using-adsi/ I would google/bing around for more information. If there is official MS documentation, I'd be interested in knowing about it myself. Please mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.

Oh, is this for practice? Not for your job? If so, I would contact MS directly, even if that means paying some $$$Please mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.

Was the initial install successful? Did it complete? I was going to recommend the "Recover Server" install option but it looks like you now have another Exchange install installed over that? You just might have to try to clean Active Directory which is usually something you want to avoid. Here's some information on where Exchange lives in Active Directory: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998561(v=exchg.150).aspx Don't worry about the Schema and Domain partitions. You can't delete anything from the Schema partition if you wanted to. References to the Exchange organization are stored in the Configuration partition. I don't think there is official MS documentation on how to do this (???) and believe it is unsupported (???). This blog provides some information on removing Exchange from AD using ADSIEdit but I cannot confirm that the information is correct: http://memphistech.net/?p=264 Or here, for previous versions: http://blog.dargel.at/2012/02/23/remove-legacy-exchange-server-using-adsi/ I would google/bing around for more information. If there is official MS documentation, I'd be interested in knowing about it myself. Please mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.

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