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Trying to remove virtual exchange 2003 server - c103f492 Error

Dear Experts

We're in the process of removing all our Exchange 2003 Clustered servers. We've trying to remove one of the virtual servers but we keep getting the message that:

"One or more users currently have a mailbox store on this server... etc"

When we do a search in AD for all users with the their exchange home server set to this particular virtual server it only comes up with 3 SystemMailboxes. From articles that i've read its okay to leave these alone. I've even tried disabling these accounts but the server still wont remove. Any ideas?

Nitin Gupta

Hi,
Yes you are right..... they are SM.... Good Reference- http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2003/management-administration/Exchange-2003-System-Mailboxes.html
For Removal - http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Remove-Exchange-server-entire-Exchange-organization.html
Let me know
Thanks
Nitin Gupta (gupnit)

Bladey001

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I'm not sure if im understanding it correctly but it looks as though the 2nd article you posted is geared towards the removal of exchange 2003 rather than the removal of a virtual clustered instance of exchange? Is the procedure the same then?

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Bladey001

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Hi rakesh

After checking the homeMDDBL there are a couple of mailboxes listed that aren't SystemMailboxes, when i try and remove them from here i get an error saying that the attribute cannot be modified because it is owned by the system..?

rakeshmiglani

you can't remove from adsiedit.msc
they need to be removed from ADUC