Phil Pearce
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Exchange 2010 Decommission
Hi,
Im trying to uninstall the mailbox role off a server
Ive moved the replicas as per here
Ive looked at ADSIedit for the msExchHomePublicMDB attribute but it doesn't exist
Any ideas on how I should proceed?
Im trying to uninstall the mailbox role off a server
Mailbox Role Prerequisites
Failed
Error:
Uninstall cannot continue. Database 'BB-Public Folders': Public folder database "BB-Public Folders" is the default public folder database for the following mailbox database(s):
BB-MDB01
BB-MDB02
. Before deleting the public folder database, assign a new default public folder database to the mailbox database(s).
Ive moved the replicas as per here
Get-PublicFolder \ -recurse | ft name, parentpath,replicas
Name ParentPath Replicas
---- ---------- --------
IPM_SUBTREE {}
Meeting Rooms \ {AA-Public Folders}
4 person meeting room \Meeting Rooms {AA-Public Folders}
Meeting Rooms1 \ {AA-Public Folders}
Teams \ {AA-Public Folders}
ITS \Teams {AA-Public Folders}
Hardware requests \Teams\ITS {AA-Public Folders}
Whereabouts Calendar \Teams\ITS {AA-Public Folders}
Laptop Requests \Teams\ITS {AA-Public Folders}
Licenses \Teams\ITS {AA-Public Folders}
Starters and Leavers \Teams\ITS {AA-Public Folders}
Get-MailboxDatabase | ft name,publicfolderdatabase
Name PublicFolderDatabase
---- --------------------
AA-MDB01 AA-Public Folders
AA-MDB02 AA-Public Folders
BB-MDB01 BB-Public Folders
BB-MDB02 BB-Public Folders
Ive looked at ADSIedit for the msExchHomePublicMDB attribute but it doesn't exist
Any ideas on how I should proceed?
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Ya, that what I said above. As your current MBX db's are using PF db which you are trying to remove. Hence Exchange is not allowing it to remove. Until you point DB's to another PF DB.
I assume, I answered your question correctly.
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Accepted answer: 0 points for Pilly170's comment #a41030326
for the following reason:
I was following a tutorial for decommissioning, which had not performed this step