Recipe 2.19. Removing Administrative GroupsProblemYou want to remove an AG because it is no longer needed within your Exchange organization. SolutionUsing a graphical user interface
DiscussionEvery object in Exchange has to be owned either by a server (e.g., storage groups, databases) or by an AG (e.g., servers, connectors, and routing groups). If you delete an AG without removing the objects in it, that would leave orphaned objects, which would be bad. However, if ESM allowed you to easily remove an AG and all the objects it contains, that would be worseimagine a single-click way to remove all of your servers, storage groups, and so on! To make it harder to delete a needed object accidentally, Microsoft blocks deleting AG objects from ESM; you must use ADSI Edit or VBScript to remove unnecessary AGs.
See AlsoRecipe 2.18 for creating AGs and Recipe 2.20 for moving objects between AGs |