With my new Exchange 2010 environment working quite happily it was time to remove the old 2007 stuff from the setup.

This is extremely easy to do but I haven’t posted anything in a while so I thought I’d document the process.

To start just load up the Programs and Features section of Control Panel, choose Exchange and select Uninstall.















The first screen is utterly pointless

At the next screen you need to deselect the options you no longer require. Ideally as I’m Uninstalling and not Modifying the installation I’d have thought you’d select that which you want to remove.






























Clicking next will start the uninstall process

Unfortunately even though this machine wasn’t actually doing anything there was still a connector that used this server as a source transport server so the uninstall of the Hub Transport Role failed.















To resolve this all you need to do is load up the Exchange 2010 Management console, navigate to the Hub Transport role within the Organisation Configuration and in the Send Connectors tab remove the Connector that uses the server as a source.















Running the uninstaller again allows all the Readiness Checks to pass















Nearly 2 hours later (This machine had virtually no RAM as I’d allocated it elsewhere) the uninstall completed















Easy as anything.