Following artical 839356 step 6, in which you delete the exchange container in active directory using ADSI. After doing so I restarted the server. Then went to my GC/DC and tried to access the Users and Computers snapin; it gave me a error that it could not connect to active directory,this was the same for sites and services etc. I restarted the server and tried again. Everything worked fine. I have two questions. What happened? Would the exchange 2003 setup.exe /removeorg do the same thing as the above mentioned artical. thx jason