Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Cpuroast — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:47:58 GMT

The KB only says how to move replicas to another server.

Not remove them completely if you are permanently removing exchange.

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Anthony — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:59:40 GMT

Yep, this article only moves the replicas.

Is there no way you can uninstall exchange??????

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Charlie — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:40:48 GMT

Your help sucks. I really need to remove exchange permantently.

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Wang — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:31:38 GMT

1. Please keep at least one administrator mail box to remove public folder first!

2. From Exchange 2007 shell command

run following 3 commands:

Get-PublicFolder -Server <your server name> "\" -Recurse -ResultSize:Unlimited | Remove-PublicFolder -Server ex2007 -Recurse -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue

Get-PublicFolder -Server <your server name> "\Non_Ipm_Subtree" -Recurse -ResultSize:Unlimited | Remove-PublicFolder -Server EX2007 -Recurse -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue

Disable-Mailbox all mail box in last Exchange 2007

3. Remove your Exchange 2007 from add/remove

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Eric — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:05:55 GMT

Wang you help workt just GREAT!!!

there where only 2 typo's

Get-PublicFolder -Server <your server name> "\" -Recurse -ResultSize:Unlimited | Remove-PublicFolder -Server <your server name> -Recurse -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue

Get-PublicFolder -Server <your server name> "\Non_Ipm_Subtree" -Recurse -ResultSize:Unlimited | Remove-PublicFolder -Server <your server name> -Recurse -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue

if you replace <your server name> with the name of your server all works fine (need to replace it 4 times)

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Kurt — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:01:37 GMT

Thanks, Wang and Eric

Your help did work (I used the corrected scripts that Eric published)

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Velfir — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:47:23 GMT

So gret job, many thanks Wang, uninstalling was a really pain in my ass, with your command it's as easy as unintsalling office .

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Marcel — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:20:31 GMT

These commands finaly makes it happen to remove exchange 2007! Thanks! Just what I was looking for for a long time.

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Craig — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:34:22 GMT

I tried the commands, with the chnages that Eric made, and I am still unable to get this off of my server. I am ready to nuke the server completely and start from scratch.

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

David — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:48:55 GMT

Wang you rock you are the bomb final some one that knows his stuff

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Dwayne Farmer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:14:40 GMT

Wang o de tango! You are my Hero too - I completely destroyed one system and had to re-install from bare metal before I found this thread. The second un-install went smooth as Silk thanks to these commands!

Thanks a BUNCH!

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Wally — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:32:55 GMT

Thanks Wang. you are a life saver

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Shuyang — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:08:35 GMT

Thanks Wang. I had wasted some days to remove exchange 2007.

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Eric — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:32:22 GMT

Thanks Wang, I too have been trying to get Exchange 2007 off my server. Microsoft assumes that you will never need to completly get this thing completly off your server, I guess. Your trick worked perfectly.

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Dan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:49:36 GMT

Do these steps only remove the Replicas on that one Public Folder server, or do these steps remove the folders from ALL Public Folder servers?

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Chas K — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:29:48 GMT

Just tried the commands listed and they remove the public folders and their content from all replicas not just the server being decomissioned!

I know how to remove the server from the replica lists of the folders - that works fine and aftwer ~15 mins the folders are removed only from the server to be decomissioned. However what is left behind is the IPM_Sub_Tree folders - how do you deal with these?

Isn't E2007 Fun!

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Miguel-Angel — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:39:39 GMT

Cool, I could uninstall my Exchange 2007 SP1 that was installed in Windows 2008.

Thank you

Gracias!!

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Ken — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:31:11 GMT

THis works GREAT! Just be patient and place all spaces, dashes and lowercase/Uppercase exactly

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

Aayush — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:01:31 GMT

Hey thanks buddy... these scripts really works...

removing exchange was really a overehead...

Thanks a lot !!!

Bye... :)

re: Public Folder Replicas Prevent Uninstall Exchange 2007

EricB — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:35:25 GMT

I have the same issue listed above. The scripts given, I believe, remove all public folders in the organization. I am interested only in getting the system folders off one this one system so that I can remove the public folder store. I don't want to harm any other servers. Does anyone have a fix for that?