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I am working on a project to decommission two of our Exchange 2003 public folder servers. We will be keeping one 2003 PF server that due to a legacy application that relies on PF's and will not work in our 2010 environment. I have already replicated all &nbsp;public folders (other than the legacy apps) to our new 2010 servers. I now need to decom the two of the old servers. My question is, should I use Add/Remove Programs to remove exchange from them or just delete the databases and use ADSIedit to remove all Exchange info?<br />
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I am super stressed about this... any help appreciated.
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I am working on a project to decommission two of our Exchange 2003 public folder servers. We will be keeping one 2003 PF server that due to a legacy application that relies on PF's and will not work in our 2010 environment. I have already replicated all  public folders (other than the legacy apps) to our new 2010 servers. I now need to decom the two of the old servers. My question is, should I use Add/Remove Programs to remove exchange from them or just delete the databases and use ADSIedit to remove all Exchange info?

I am super stressed about this... any help appreciated.

Exchange 2003 Public Folder server Decom

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