I am in a bit of a pickle here and hope that someone has some suggestions. Recently, 6 months ago we upgraded to server 2012 and Exchange 2013 64 bit. Everything has been moved from the 2003 server / 2007 exchange environment and seems to be running correctly. To be honest the 2003 server was cut off for a few weeks just to make sure that everything was completely moved over to the 2012/2013 environment. Good news here is it all works except for Exchange 2013 fussing about not being able to see the 2007 exchange server.
Goal: Completely remove Exchange from this server followed by removing the server from AD. It is 7 years old and I want tocut it off forever.
Problem: Exchange will not uninstall. Per paid support call to Microsoft I was told if I wanted to completely and properly remove all instances of this server from my Exchange environment and AD environment I must use the add/remove programs method to do so. Unfortunately this process fails as well as several other items on this server.
Environment / Work done so far: The 2003 server running 2007 Exchange was also an AD server. Yes I know it’s a non-supported environment, but it’s what I was handed and it seemed to work for years. I have checked and this server is not running any FSMO roles anymore. When I try to remove the application Exchange, through add/remove programs, I get a little gray box that comes up and says… “Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Setup Initializing”. After about 3 or 4 seconds the box disappears and nothing further happens. The same thing happens when I try to “Change” the application.
Other things of interest:
- The Exchange Management Console will not load either.The error message is:CLSID:FX:(76dd58f7-54ba-42e3-a2e0-dbfb674539f)
- The Exchange Management Shell will not seem to execute any commands either.I get several messages, but most have the following:“The type initializer for ‘InstanceContext’ threw an exception.
- I downloaded service pack 3 and tried to install, but that failed as well.
- The follwoing Exchange related services will not run.
- Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync
- Microsoft Exchange IMAP$
- Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission
- Microsoft Exchange POP3
- Microsoft Exchange Replication Service
- Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer
- Microsoft Exchange Service Host
- Microsoft Exchange Transport
Any suggestions / help would be greatly appreciated.