I know that with SBS sometimes things do not like to get uninstalled. You may look for manual uninstall which is ugly but I would think if the Exchange System Manager is gone, you could probably stop any other services that may be running that may be Exchange related Are you DCPromo'ing the server to be a domain controller again since DCPromo for SBS is only supported to rebuild the server basically from scratch.
Since SBS server is designed to be the domain controller in single server environment. As long as I can determine that the new SBS box is not recognizing the old sbs as an exchange server within the organization then I can go ahead and DCPromo it out, but I'm unsure of how to find that out with Exchange Is there a command that can be run in the management shell to list all exchange servers in the organization?
I can't seem to find one. I've had to do this more than once. I'm pretty certain its not in the organization as an excahnge server anymore. It definitely does not show up as an exchange server on the new sbs box. Thanks for the advice. First if all there is no such thing as an inplace upgrade of SBS, it's simply not possible. And, you will find my guide that the author used closely resembles the Microsoft guide with images and step by step Instructions based on my own personal experience.
That said, what is the current state? Have you been able to uninstall Exchange from the SBS server? Often there is an additional component IMF for example that needs to be removed first. The error you get when you try to remove it will tell us what needs to be done to resolve this.
Policies with Mailbox Manager settings on them cannot be upgraded and thus the Mailbox Manager portion of the policy must be removed. How you prepare your recipient policies depends on which tabs are present within the policies. If there is only a Mailbox Manager Settings tab present, this policy should be deleted completely. To do this right-click the policy in Exchange System Manager and choose Delete from the context menu. If there are both Mailbox Manager Settings and E-Mail Addresses tabs visible, then right-click the policy and choose the Change property pages… option from the context menu.
You will then be presented with the window shown in Figure 21 although this time both check boxes will be selected. You need to clear the Mailbox Manager Settings check box to remove this from the policy.
The important thing to remember is that only email address policies should remain. What happens to the Mailbox Manager settings? Previously within part two of this article we moved the public folder contents from the Exchange server to the Exchange server to the point where we were able to remove the public folder store from the Exchange server.
Moving the public folder hierarchy is simply a question of dragging and dropping it into the new administrative group created during the installation of Exchange However, before it can be dragged and dropped a new Folders container must be created within the Exchange administrative group.
This is done from within the Exchange System Manager on your Exchange server. From the resulting context menu, choose New and then choose Public Folders Container. The result will be a new Folders container under the Exchange administrative group. However, you may be unable to use the Exchange Setup program to remove Exchange In this scenario, you can manually remove Exchange To do this, you must first stop and disable all Exchange services.
You can then use Registry Editor to remove registry keys that are part of the Exchange installation. Then, you must reinstall any service packs or security updates that are installed on the server.
If you must remove Microsoft Exchange Server from your computer, you must first disconnect all mailbox-enabled users from the mailboxes on the Exchange server. You can then run the Exchange Server Installation Wizard. In the wizard, click the Remove option for the installed components on the Component Selection screen. However, if you cannot use the Exchange Server Installation Wizard to remove Exchange Server , you can use Registry Editor to manually remove the registry settings for Exchange Server You cannot remove the Exchange Server components if the Exchange server still has mailboxes for mailbox-enabled users.
To use the Active Directory User and Computers snap-in to disconnect all mailbox-enabled users, follow these steps:. You can remove the Exchange components by running the Exchange Server Setup program from Programs and Features in Control Panel on the computer that is running Exchange Server To do this, follow these steps. Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer.
If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps. Note Installed components have a check mark in the Action list. When you click Remove , the check mark is replaced by the word Remove. Click Next two times. Click Finish. If you cannot remove Exchange Server by using Add or Remove Programs, you can use Registry Editor to remove the Exchange entries from the registry.
Before you edit the registry, you must stop and disable all Exchange services on the computer. Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry.
However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it.
Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
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