I Started a new job and inherited one ____ of a mess firstly its a 2000 AD set up with exchange 2000, the admin had tried kinda to upgrade to 2007 exchange and had installed a couple VM's one running win2003 and one running win2008 and tried to install exchange 2007 all with in the working enviroment.. and FAILED.... either way i think he got nervous powered down the VM's and deleted them. soon after he quit and i was hired.. either way i got here and the fsmo roles were still pointed at the 2003 server.. i am pretty sure exchange 2007 is still in the active directory.. so i started to clean this up.. i seized the fsmo roles back to a 2000 DC got another 2000 dc replicating. then removed the orphaned domain controllers using steps provided here on technet. and i fell 90% confident that i got all traces of the 2003 and 2008 dcs clean outta our current operation.. however.. i didn't even try to remove the exchange 2007 stuff from active directory.. or from the 2000 exchange server or anything.. i would like to clean all this outta the AD as well. so we can upgrade to 2007 successfully when i start that process. can anyone point me to some kb articles or somewhere that will go about helping me remove all traces of exchange 2007 while preserving our current 2000 exchnage server and 2000 AD?Keyboard Not Detected - Press F1 to continue

Hi,Have a look at this page:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998313.aspxAccording to it using ADSIEDIT is the only option. Removing the FYDIBOHF23SPDLT should be enough.Regards,Johanblog: www.johanveldhuis.nl

Hi, I think we may check information below and then run uninstall from add/remove. 1. Please check if you have PF on Exchange Server 2007,if yes, then please remove all the replicas from Exchange System Manager. After that, please use ADSIedit to remove the public folder store. 2. Please check if you have connector between Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007,if yes, then please remove connector from ESM After that, please try to uninstall Exchange Server from add/remove. Also we can run setup in maintenance mode to remove exchange server. Regards, Xiu