Cannot remove Exchange 2000   

I have an old Windows 2000 server that has Exchange 2000 on it but this 
Exchange server has been out of service for a while (services stopped). I 
wanted to demote this server to a member server (was currently a DC) and 
also remove Exchange server. So, I demoted it first, which went fine. But 
now when I go to run the Exchange 2000 Remove Program applet, it won't let 
me remove it because it says there are active mailboxes. As far as I can 
tell, you need AD to delete mailboxes, and I removed AD when I demoted the 
server. So, any idea on how to remove Exchange 2000 at this point? 
Thanks. -- tom c

date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:13:14 -0500   author:   Tom C.

Re: Cannot remove Exchange 2000   

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924170

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279202



-- 
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2007
Microsoft Certified Partner


"Tom C."  wrote in message 
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>I have an old Windows 2000 server that has Exchange 2000 on it but this 
>Exchange server has been out of service for a while (services stopped). I 
>wanted to demote this server to a member server (was currently a DC) and 
>also remove Exchange server. So, I demoted it first, which went fine. But 
>now when I go to run the Exchange 2000 Remove Program applet, it won't let 
>me remove it because it says there are active mailboxes. As far as I can 
>tell, you need AD to delete mailboxes, and I removed AD when I demoted the 
>server. So, any idea on how to remove Exchange 2000 at this point? 
>Thanks. -- tom c
>

date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:30:42 -0500   author:   John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]

Re: Cannot remove Exchange 2000   

That helped! The search found that the Administrator mailbox was still on 
the old server. I moved it to the current server and Exchange 2000 
uninstalled just fine. Thanks!

date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:55:04 -0500   author:   Tom C.