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Building new Exchange but need to deal with Old exchange

Today our exchange server blue screen on us located on the C drive. As for the Store it still is on the D drive. I have built a new exchange box on a new 2003 server. AD still looks at the old-mail server because Exchange wasn't properly removed from the domain. I'm thinking that if load 2003 server and backup the old store to an external drive then I can restore all the mail boxes to the new store but before I do that I need to remove the old exchange server from Active Directory. I know nothing is simple is there a easier solution to this I would like to just point everyone to the new server within AD. This will allow them to see the new exchange.. I know I can create a new user and point them to the new exchange but I don't want to do that. Can someone tell me what would be the best procedure to move everyone with in AD to the new exchange

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Right now I'm trying to get all my users to see the new exchange server to give them new mail boxes Exchange server see's active directory but when I add a user on the DC it doesn't give me the option to create a mail box for the user which means I did something wrong on the exchange install. I want to remove exchange from the new box but it will not let me because email came into my system mail box any ideas