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date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:09:52 +0200,
group: microsoft.public.exchange2000.active.directory.integration
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Done.
[See thread "GAL? What GAL?" for full scenario]
I finally managed to get that server up and running (and, of course, I
totally deleted it as soon as all mailboxes were exported).
To any interested people, here's (basically) what I did.
- Applied SP1 to main DC/DNS/GC; this made it correctly resolve Internet
names.
- Cleaned up AD by manually (NTDSUTIL) removing any not-existing-anymore
DCs.
- For each remaining server (including Exchange):
- Configured the server to use internal DNS onstead of external one
- Applied SP1
- Demoted to member server
- Removed server entry from AD Sites and Services
- Added another DC/DNS/GC
- Configured all servers to use both DNSs
At this stage, the AD was cleaned and the two DCs were properly replicating.
Now, for the Exchange part:
- Applied SP1
- Re-ran setup /forestprep
- Re-run setup /domainprep
- Re-created domain RUS (there was only the enterprise one, I don't know if
it disappeared on its own or was deleted)
- Forced full RUS rebuild
Now I was finally able to log in using Outlook; I used it to export all
mailboxes to PSTs (there were only 12, so it was simpler than setting up
ExMerge).
Uninstallation part:
- Deleted all mailboxes
- Removed Exchange attributes from all users
- Uninstalled Exchange from the server
- Deleted the organization container from AD Sites and Services (it was
still there, even if setup said it would have been removed). Actually, I
deleted the whole "Exchange" container.
Quite a shocking experience :-)
Little question: is there anything more that I need to do in order to fully
clean AD of the old Exchange organization? I'd like to not have anything
lingering around when re-installing it from scratch.
Thanks for your time, I hope someone can learn from this. I sure had a full
course in how to *not* manage an AD domain ;-)
Massimo
date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:09:52 +0200
author: Massimo
Re: Done.
this might help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;273478
"Massimo" wrote in message
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> [See thread "GAL? What GAL?" for full scenario]
>
> I finally managed to get that server up and running (and, of course, I
> totally deleted it as soon as all mailboxes were exported).
> To any interested people, here's (basically) what I did.
>
> - Applied SP1 to main DC/DNS/GC; this made it correctly resolve Internet
> names.
> - Cleaned up AD by manually (NTDSUTIL) removing any not-existing-anymore
> DCs.
> - For each remaining server (including Exchange):
> - Configured the server to use internal DNS onstead of external one
> - Applied SP1
> - Demoted to member server
> - Removed server entry from AD Sites and Services
> - Added another DC/DNS/GC
> - Configured all servers to use both DNSs
>
> At this stage, the AD was cleaned and the two DCs were properly
replicating.
> Now, for the Exchange part:
>
> - Applied SP1
> - Re-ran setup /forestprep
> - Re-run setup /domainprep
> - Re-created domain RUS (there was only the enterprise one, I don't know
if
> it disappeared on its own or was deleted)
> - Forced full RUS rebuild
>
> Now I was finally able to log in using Outlook; I used it to export all
> mailboxes to PSTs (there were only 12, so it was simpler than setting up
> ExMerge).
>
> Uninstallation part:
>
> - Deleted all mailboxes
> - Removed Exchange attributes from all users
> - Uninstalled Exchange from the server
> - Deleted the organization container from AD Sites and Services (it was
> still there, even if setup said it would have been removed). Actually, I
> deleted the whole "Exchange" container.
>
>
> Quite a shocking experience :-)
>
>
> Little question: is there anything more that I need to do in order to
fully
> clean AD of the old Exchange organization? I'd like to not have anything
> lingering around when re-installing it from scratch.
>
>
> Thanks for your time, I hope someone can learn from this. I sure had a
full
> course in how to *not* manage an AD domain ;-)
>
>
> Massimo
>
date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:17:42 -0700
author: Susan
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