Removing an existing First Site Exchange Server   

I've recently installed and setup an Exchange Server 2003.  Successfully 
tranfered any user mailboxes onto the new server.  Also, I've setup the 
relication of all public folders, free + busy, and offline address list for 
the new server.  The new server has also been set to be the master.  However, 
I am unable to remove the the existing Exchange Server 2000 from the 
organization.  The error I recieve is the "Exchange cannot be removed at this 
time.  Mailboxes still exist on this server.  Either move these mailboxes or 
disable the mail enabled mailboxes."  Upon, investigating the error, I 
discovered three mailboxes on the existing server.  The system mailbox, 
system attendant mailbox, and smtp mailbox.  These boxes all belong to the 
NTAuthority/System account.  Can anyone assist me in getting these boxes 
moved onto the new server or assist in getting the existing server retired 
permanently?

Thanks in Advance.......

date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:24:08 -0700   author:   Doug Bowen

Re: Removing an existing First Site Exchange Server   

Hi,

From active directory users and computers you can make a search that gives
you all users with mailboxes on the old server. When you have the users you
can either delete these mailboxes or move the mailboxes to the new server
and then you should be able to uninstall the old server (don't move the
system, SMTP and system attendant mailboxes to the new server).

Make sure that you followed all the steps in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307917

Leif

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> I've recently installed and setup an Exchange Server 2003.  Successfully
> tranfered any user mailboxes onto the new server.  Also, I've setup the
> relication of all public folders, free + busy, and offline address list
for
> the new server.  The new server has also been set to be the master.
However,
> I am unable to remove the the existing Exchange Server 2000 from the
> organization.  The error I recieve is the "Exchange cannot be removed at
this
> time.  Mailboxes still exist on this server.  Either move these mailboxes
or
> disable the mail enabled mailboxes."  Upon, investigating the error, I
> discovered three mailboxes on the existing server.  The system mailbox,
> system attendant mailbox, and smtp mailbox.  These boxes all belong to the
> NTAuthority/System account.  Can anyone assist me in getting these boxes
> moved onto the new server or assist in getting the existing server retired
> permanently?
>
> Thanks in Advance.......
>
>

date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:48:18 +0200   author:   Leif Pedersen [MVP]