Remove Exchange 2007 sp1 made changes in AD Schema...
i am facing a problem last time i configured an Exchange 2007 sp1 server on windows 2008 using our production AD (on windows 2003 server), unfortunately that exchange server crashed down & sum one else formated that server now the problem is our production AD (& deleted exchange made OUs (Universal Security Groups)in AD Users& Computers), every changings made by previous exchange is still there in AD...
i tried to recover my exchange server organization through /m:recoverserver switch but all in vain, it stoped with error of deleted universal security groups.now i have to completely remove those changings made by previous exchange server then i want to create new exchange server, kindly help me out how to remove all those traces from AD...???
i am waiting for your positive reply so that i can proceed.
Best Regards.
May 9th, 2008 3:31pm
Its a bit late for a reply...however you couild have tried deleting the Server Object from ADSIEdit
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January 4th, 2011 1:33am
Hello Yasir,
Manually Removing Exchange 2007 Server
1. Run setup /m:uninstall
2. Stop and disable all the Exchange 2007 services
3. Use Registry Editor (Start->Run->Regedit) to remove these Exchange related registry keys:
* HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange
* HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange* (Delete all the keys starting with “MSExchange”)
* HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Microsoft Exchange
4. Remove the entire Web Server role (don’t forget to reinstall afterwards as it’s a prerequisite for E2K7!)
5. Remove the Exchange 2007 server from Active Directory. I ended up deleting the entire “Microsoft Exchange” branch from ADSIEdit
(Configuration Container > Services > Microsoft Exchange).
6. Remove the security groups created by Exchange setup from AD
7. Use Windows Explorer to find and delete exchange folders:
* C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server
* C:\ExchangeSetupLogs
8. Use Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to remove all the exchange related info from the installer database.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
You can also refer this article
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123893(EXCHG.80).aspx
For Exchange 2007 installation check:
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/migration-deployment/installing-exchange-2007-windows-server-2008.html
Thanks.
January 6th, 2011 11:28am
if you are talking about the rolling back changes made to SCHEMA that is not possible. you cound have ran
prepareAD and prepaireDomain and ran the setup /m:recoverserver again. you can still do it if you have not yet deleted the server object
have you already deleted the server object ?
Dhruv
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January 7th, 2011 6:49am