I have a server that has been showing signs of pending failure. Exchange was misbehaving, AD was mis-behaving as well as other applications on this box. I moved the mailboxes off this server 8 weeks ago and changed the SMTP routing and Recipient Address update settings before things got to where it is now. I can't remove Exchange, it fails with an error message that means nothing. It suggests referring to the log file in the temp folder which only shows the same message the error dialoge box provides. There is nothing on this server I need and I want to nuke the partition and install W2K3 Enterprise. Does anybody know what I will need to do to clean up Active Directory?
Hi, This should help for the exchange part: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278918 Leif "mathews" wrote in message news:duo9fb01jld@news3.newsguy.com... >I have a server that has been showing signs of pending failure. Exchange >was misbehaving, AD was mis-behaving as well as other applications on this >box. I moved the mailboxes off this server 8 weeks ago and changed the SMTP >routing and Recipient Address update settings before things got to where it >is now. > > I can't remove Exchange, it fails with an error message that means > nothing. It suggests referring to the log file in the temp folder which > only shows the same message the error dialoge box provides. There is > nothing on this server I need and I want to nuke the partition and install > W2K3 Enterprise. Does anybody know what I will need to do to clean up > Active Directory? > > >
