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Thanks both for the suggestions. Thanks Mark for the links.
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Thanks both for the suggestions. Thanks Mark for the links.

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Greetings.<br />
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We moved to Office 365 earlier this year. &nbsp;We have a single on-premise Exchange 2010 server that is no longer used. &nbsp;All mailboxes, contacts, distribution groups, public folders, databases have been removed. We manage Exchange users in Office 365 and AD accounts locally.<br />
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I need to make room on our rack and wish to remove our 2U old Exchange server.<br />
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All &quot;mail&quot; attributes have been populated properly for each user. &nbsp;I believe this is the equivalent to converting all users to &quot;mail-enabled&quot; users. &nbsp;I use a third-party utility for password synchronization and that's working fine.<br />
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Is there any compelling reason why I shouldn't uninstall Microsoft Exchange 2010 from the server, power it down and remove it from the server room ? &nbsp;Am I missing anything critical ?<br />
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Thanks much.<br />
-Stephen
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Greetings.

We moved to Office 365 earlier this year.  We have a single on-premise Exchange 2010 server that is no longer used.  All mailboxes, contacts, distribution groups, public folders, databases have been removed. We manage Exchange users in Office 365 and AD accounts locally.

I need to make room on our rack and wish to remove our 2U old Exchange server.

All "mail" attributes have been populated properly for each user.  I believe this is the equivalent to converting all users to "mail-enabled" users.  I use a third-party utility for password synchronization and that's working fine.

Is there any compelling reason why I shouldn't uninstall Microsoft Exchange 2010 from the server, power it down and remove it from the server room ?  Am I missing anything critical ?

Thanks much.
-Stephen

Exchange 2010 - Decommission Server

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

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.

Exchange

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