This is not what I was thinking at the time - I just wanted to get the server back online - I hadn't thought about the Exchange database until after the restore).Īnyhow, I think I might be in a state of partially uninstalled Exchange.
COMPLETELY UNINSTALL OFFICE 2011 WINDOWS
The Exchange database is on a different volume and I did not restore that volume (I don't know if it was necessary or not since, I presume, Windows Server Backup restored everything Exchange. I ended up doing a bare metal restore to get things back up. In this case, data loss is permanent and you cannot recover the data." Of course I couldn't login to the server after I executed that command. "When you permanently delete active user mailboxes and disconnected mailboxes, all mailbox contents are removed from the Exchange mailbox database and the associated active directory account is also deleted. I missed the following warning that told me exactly what would happen:
I got frustrated and careless and ran a command I came across in my Google searching that nuked all mailboxes (Get-Mailbox | Remove-Mailbox -Permanent $true). Database 'Mailbox Database nnnnnnnnnn': This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans.". I tried to uninstall through "Programs and Features" but kept on getting the error "Summary: 3 item(s). We've moved to Office 365 and I would like to uninstall Exchange 2010 from the server.
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