Goodbye Exchange 2007

It’s been a while since I last posted here. Life has been super hectic and finding free time to write something coherent has been harder than I thought it would be. I’ve also seen that my last post was actually my 200th post, which in the grand scheme of things is a pretty nice milestone considering how eratic I’ve been with posting over the years.

Anyway, I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. I’m posting a screenshot I made as I was finishing the removal of Exchange 2007 from our network ±4 months ago. Our mail platform has been running successfully on Office 365 since that time, with only the very odd head scratching moment causing some minor grief. Staff have more or less settled down into using the new platform, though they probably still need a lot more time to become fully familiar with the interface. SPAM suppression seems to be working well, though I’m not sure how many staff are actually checking their junk folders for legit mail that is incorrectly marked as junk.

I must say that the un-install process went very smoothly, it just took a long time as per the screenshot below. I chose to do things properly instead of just trashing the VM, which would have been a lot quicker. The removal process removes a lot of stuff from Active Directory, though there is still quite a bit of cruft left behind.