Remove Exchange 2007 from SBS during migration
We have been trying to remove Exchange 2007 from an SBS 2008 server inorder to complete a migration to O365 and server 2016.
DC Diag is clean on both the SBS server and the Server 2016.
We tried to remove the Exchange using Control Panel Add Remove Programs and after having issues regarding the OAB and mailboxes we thought that we had some success - however we are now at the stage where it seems to have passed the prerequisites but the uninstallation would not complete. We have now removed some of the roles - however we get the error below when attempting to remove the Mailbox Role. Please see attachment. We have also tried the following:
-Uninstalling using Control Panel
-Right clicking to on ExchangeServer.Msi and selecting uninstall - we get the patch error you can see attached.
We are at a loss now as what to do?
Any suggestions would be appreciated?
Thanks Stuart
Exchange-Uninstall-Error.JPG
Patch-Error.JPG
DC Diag is clean on both the SBS server and the Server 2016.
We tried to remove the Exchange using Control Panel Add Remove Programs and after having issues regarding the OAB and mailboxes we thought that we had some success - however we are now at the stage where it seems to have passed the prerequisites but the uninstallation would not complete. We have now removed some of the roles - however we get the error below when attempting to remove the Mailbox Role. Please see attachment. We have also tried the following:
-Uninstalling using Control Panel
-Right clicking to on ExchangeServer.Msi and selecting uninstall - we get the patch error you can see attached.
We are at a loss now as what to do?
Any suggestions would be appreciated?
Thanks Stuart
Exchange-Uninstall-Error.JPG
Patch-Error.JPG
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Hi Peter - Gave that a go however got this error:
ASKER
This the same error that we have been getting when trying to uninstall using the Control Panel Add Remove programs
ASKER
Any other ideas Pete?
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No probs - sorry I was busy with the day job :( was the SBS still a DC when you executed that command? I ask because Ive seem similar errors while doing other things in Powershell and I had to manually specify which domain controller to use in the command.
Anyway looks like you got there in the end! Remember SBS leaves loads of annoying Group Policy Objects all over the place! make sure you moved your CA server off the SBS box also if it was deployed (that's tripped me up before also!)
Have a good weekend Stuart
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Anyway looks like you got there in the end! Remember SBS leaves loads of annoying Group Policy Objects all over the place! make sure you moved your CA server off the SBS box also if it was deployed (that's tripped me up before also!)
Have a good weekend Stuart
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ASKER
Hi Pete - Thanks for getting back to me. Eventually after a reboot all the services including store disappeared!
SBS Server: Remove / Uninstall Exchange
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