Here is the situation.
We have a very old DC on our network (most all the servers and
applications were installed and configured long before I arrived)
running Windows 2000 SBS with Exchange.
Their has been a Windows 2003 Ent server that has been promoted to DC
and has ALL roles now.
There is also a Windows 2003 machine with Exchange 2003 Ent running
that contains all of our mailboxes now too, and seems to run without
issues.
On the SBS 2000 machine all Exchange services have been stopped for
quite a while - about a year.
In the Exchange System Manager on the Exchange 2k3 box in the
'Servers' section there are both servers listed - SBSmail and the new
MAIL01(Exchange 2k3).
We wish to completely remove the old SBS machine; including the
references and settings for the Exchange installed there too.
There is no Exchange 2000 listed in the Add/Remove Programs
BUT there is a Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 listed. When I
clicked on Change/Remove I was prompted for the installation CD - I
provided the one that is with the server MS SBS2000 and none of the 4
CDs were recognized as 'correct'.
How can we go about removing the Exchange Server from the organization
without messing up something in AD or the Exchange settings.
I may be over thinking this and I hope I am.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I am trying to get this
organization back into the 21st century and hopefully into this
decade.