Question : Legacy Exchange 2000 Server - How To Remove

Forgive me first as I am not an exchange admin. Please let me know if you need more details and I can provide anything needed.

Client is running a mixed server 2000 / 2003 domain running in 2000 native mode. I am preparing to transition to 2008 AD and then Exchange 2010 afterwards.

They are running Exchange 2003 and I have noticed that in the Exchange System Manager, an old Exchange 2000 server is listed under First Administrative Group --> Servers. This server is not online and I presume has not been for some time. My assumption is that they migrated from Exchange 2000 and decomissioned the box. My knowledge is that Exchange 2003 runs fine and without any problems.

My question is whether this should be there (since it can't even be contacted in any way), and whether it will create problems for either the AD transition or Exchange 2010 transition.

I have run the Best Practices Analyzer and it obviously throws errors that it cannot contact this machine, read from it's registry etc. I assume this needs to be corrected before transitioning to 2010?

Another error that's being thrown is that the ADC is redundant and has no agreements in place. The analyzer says it's a candidate for removal (and must be removed for transitioning).

Please advise.

Answer : Legacy Exchange 2000 Server - How To Remove

Then it was 2008 R2 and you can use Adventureworks 2008R2 RTM itself..