Hi,
Got a bit of a strange question here... hoping someone may be able to offer some advice.
I’ve inherited an Exchange 2007 email environment with 1700 ish mailboxes. In my Exchange Organisation there is also a 2013 server presence which consists of 2 x Client Access Servers and 3 Mailbox servers, which have been set-up as part of a DAG (along with a DAG Witness Server).
The person who set this up, has since left the company, and left no documentation – great…
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I’m totally in the dark as to where he got to with the set-up and configuration. I know for certain that no mailboxes ever got to the 2013 servers, and apart from being physically there, they are not used for anything. I’m having various issues (mailbox databases won’t mount, can’t move mailboxes from 2007 to 2013 etc) and I’m starting to think I’d be better off starting again. To be honest the DAG set-up is most probably overkill for our environment, especially as we are hosting all of these servers in VMWare.
So, basically, my question is, has anyone ever had to remove 2013 Server from their organisation, and then re-introduce a fresh installation? What are the pitfalls, and should it be attempted?
Is it just a case of removing Exchange from the said servers, keeping a couple of servers that will run all the exchange roles and start again? (I definitely want to ditch the DAGS)
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks