How to manually remove Exchange 2007
(Note:not supported by MSFT)
- Run setup /m:uninstall
- Stop and disable all the Exchange 2007 services
- Use Registry Editor (Start->Run->Regedit) to remove these Exchange related registry keys:
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange
- HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange* (all the keys starting with “MSExchange”)
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Microsoft Exchange
- Remove the entire Web Server role (don’t forget to reinstall afterwards as it’s a prerequisite for E2K7!)
- Remove the Exchange 2007 server from Active Directory. I ended up deleting the entire “Microsoft Exchange” branch from ADSIEdit (Configuration Container > Services > Microsoft Exchange) as my Org only counts one server.
- Use Windows Explorer to delete:
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server
- C:\ExchangeSetupLogs
- Consider using Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to remove all the exchange related info from the installer database.
- Remove the security groups created by Exchange setup from AD