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I think I know but wanted to verify: &nbsp;A pair of Exchange 2010 servers, two weeks ago I migrated the last of the on-premise accounts to Office365. &nbsp;There are no other active, or used mailboxes on either server. &nbsp;In fact I had all three databases dismounted for the past week.<br />
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In order to perform a correct removal, I am thinking that I could just correctly uninstall Exchange from the second server first, then run the uninstaller on the first server and that's it right? &nbsp;I figured that since our entire messaging setup is in Microsoft's hands now *shiver* that as long as Exchange is fully and completely removed then AD will be happy.<br />
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Oh wait.. what do I do about MX records in local DNS forward lookup zones?
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I think I know but wanted to verify:  A pair of Exchange 2010 servers, two weeks ago I migrated the last of the on-premise accounts to Office365.  There are no other active, or used mailboxes on either server.  In fact I had all three databases dismounted for the past week.

In order to perform a correct removal, I am thinking that I could just correctly uninstall Exchange from the second server first, then run the uninstaller on the first server and that's it right?  I figured that since our entire messaging setup is in Microsoft's hands now *shiver* that as long as Exchange is fully and completely removed then AD will be happy.

Oh wait.. what do I do about MX records in local DNS forward lookup zones?

Exchange 2010 Decommission

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.