Re: Decommissioning the last Exchange 5.5 server

From: Susan (susan_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:20:40 -0700

what was it?

<hhamburgerjung@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:hhamburgerjung-20F933.16054306102004@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Oops, I meant that I already had verified that the e-mails in that queue
> were directed towards external recipients.
>
> The problem seems to be solved now. Thanks for all your help.
>
>
> In article <eRO59F$qEHA.516@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>,
> "Susan" <susan@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> > you should be able to tell where the messages were supposed to go by
> > examining them in the queue...
> >
> > <hhamburgerjung@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:hhamburgerjung-7F2126.15070406102004@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > > In article <e3k#Eu#qEHA.2732@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>,
> > > "Susan" <susan@nospam.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Not sure, I have to admit. I have observed though that as soon as I
stop
> > > the MTA Agent on the 5.5 server, outbound mails were queued in a queue
> > > [5.5Server] with Protocol X400 and Source Exchange MTA. Am I
misreading
> > > something?
> > >
> > > > the mails that went into the MTA queue were mails to the Internet?
how
> > does
> > > > your email go to the Internet? forwarded to a host or using DNS?
> > > >
> > > > <hhamburgerjung@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:hhamburgerjung-832370.14220306102004@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > > > > I am in the process of removing the last Exchange 5.5 server from
our
> > > > > network after installing and migrating to Exchange 2003. I have
read
> > the
> > > > > Exchange Deployment Guide as well as KB articles 284148, 822450
and
> > > > > 285090. So far everything went well until I came to section 11 in
KB
> > > > > 284148, where it says:
> > > > >
> > > > > >> At this point you may want to just power down the Exchange
Server
> > 5.5
> > > > > computer to ensure that everything functions properly before
actually
> > > > > uninstalling Exchange from the server. When you are convinced that
> > > > > everything is functioning properly, you can uninstall Exchange
from
> > the
> > > > > server. <<
> > > > >
> > > > > I shut down the Exchange Server 5.5, and immediately mails were
> > spooled
> > > > > into the Exchange 5.5 MTA queue instead of being sent out. When
the
> > > > > Exchange 5.5 server came back up the mails were sent.
> > > > > So my question is, does this behaviour change, that is, is the
> > Exchange
> > > > > 2003 queue being used, as soon as the 5.5-server is deleted?
> > > > > Also, do I need to manually create an SMTP connector to replace
the
> > > > > Internet Mail connector from the 5.5-server?
> > > > > Lastly, if I delete the 5.5-server from the organization, can I
bring
> > it
> > > > > back if things get awry?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you for your help
> > > > > Karsten
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >

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