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Copper Contributor

Jan 03, 2022

Lingering Edge subscription objects for decommissioned servers

At some sites I manage, it was discovered during the Y2022K fixes, running the Get-malwarefilteringserver command on Edge servers shows decommissioned servers that no longer exist. The Get-Queue com...

Exchange Server

hybrid

surajbudhani

Microsoft

Jan 04, 2022

Check if you still have any Send/Receive connectors attributed to these decommissioned servers. Also check if the AD object is still present for these servers and if these objects show up when you run Get-ExchangeServer

GettnBetter

Copper Contributor

Jan 04, 2022

Get-ExchangeServer reveals only the active exchange servers and the edge server. Each site is different with connectors but Get-ReceiveConnector shows only connectors on active exchange servers and Get-SendConnector only shows the two EdgeSync conenctors to and from the edge server and Outbound to office 365. The AD computer object for the decommissioned servers no longer exist, they were disabled, then deleted a few months after uninstalling Exchange.