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migrating from exchange 2007 to 2013 issue

i am trying to upgrade from exchange 2007 to 2012. in the prerequisites it says i cannot go any further unless exchange 2000 or 2003 servers are removed. ive located the old 2003 server in adsi but im not sure if i should delete it or what would happen if i delete it. i was told that it needed to be left there when migrating from 2003 to 2007, but i have no clue why. can someone shed some light on why that was the case and what would happen if i go ahead and get rid of it? is there some sort of work around? am i even looking in the right place?

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Simon Butler (Sembee)

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Radweld

if you follow the advice from Sembree make sure you move the RUS and Move the Public Folder Hierarchy to Exchange 2007 at the same time.

The following is for 2010 although most of it applies to 2010 https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/exchange/upgrade-exchange-2003-to-exchange-2010---part-ii/

rjunk

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Thanks for responding both of you. I do not have the exchange 2003 media or a Windows 2003 Server. I will go ahead and delete the remaining entry in asdi edit and hope for the best. I will let you guys know if it worked or $h!t the bed.

Radweld

http://blog.dargel.at/2012/02/23/remove-legacy-exchange-server-using-adsi/ for a bit of support on how to do it.

rjunk

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I removed the only server from ADSI edit and that did the trick. I can now move forward with the installation of 2013. I installed exchange, rebooted the server and when i launch the exchange toolbox i get an error "MMC has detected an error in a snap-in and will unload it."

rjunk

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Removing the old server from ADSI edit didnt cause anything bad to happen. FYI.