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uninstalling Exchange 2000 I got the following prompt appear:Every I clicked on in the showed the following error:Setup failed while (error 0x8000FFFF: An unexpected error occurred.) .Additional information:An unexpected error occurred.ID no: 8000ffffMicrosoft Exchange SetupFunction:CComExchSetupComponent::HrPromptForCDIfNecessaryCComExchSetupComponent::InstallI have uninstalled Exchange 2000 many times through Add and Remove programs and never had this before - really weird. The fix for this was to run the exchange setup application of the exchange 2000 CD under D:\Setup\i386\setup.exe, and selecting remove for all exchange components. Maybe the installation files https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23499696/Getting-errors-such-as-ID-no-8000ffff-when-uninstalling-Exchange-2003-with-2007-in-production.html on drive c: were corrupt? Posted by Clint Boessen at 1:23 AM Labels: Exchange 2000/2003 1 comment: BobMariaAugust 11, 2010 at 12:37 AMHi,Before you remove Exchange 2000, you must disconnect all mailboxes enabled users from the mailboxes on the Exchange server, resultant users will have been disconnected and then you can use the Exchange 2000 Setup program to remove http://clintboessen.blogspot.com/2009/10/exchange-2000-error-0x8000ffff.html Exchange 2000.ThanksReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more... Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Clint Boessen [MVP] clint.boessen@avantgardetechnologies.com.au Clint Boessen's Blog Clint Boessen Perth, Western Australia, Australia Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer MVP, MCSE, MCSA, MCTS, MCP MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010 MCITP: Server Administrator MCITP: Enterprise Administrator TS: SCOM My TechNet Posts Join My RSS Feed View my complete profile Awards Labels Active Directory (108) AD LDS / ADAM (11) Applications (39) Backup Exec (12) Citrix (2) Exchange 2000/2003 (67) Exchange 2007/2010 (262) Exchange 2013 (66) Exchange 2016 (9) F5 BIG-IP (1) Forefront (8) Hardware (23) IIFP / MIIS / ILM / FIM (2) Linux (11) Miscellaneous Posts (3) Networking (28) OCS/Lync (1) Office 365 (8) Outlook (43) SCCM (9) SCOM (3) Scripting (47) Security (6) SQL (16) System Center (1) Terminal Services (16) Trend Micro (7) Virtualization (8) Viruses (2) Websense (2) Windows Client General (91) Windows Server General (209) Blog Archive ► 2016 (28) ► October (2) ► September (4) ► August (2) ► July (5) ► June (6) ► May (

| My Forums | Address Book | Member List | Search | FAQ | Ticket List | Log Out 8000ffff installation error on SBS2003/Exchange 2003 Users viewing this topic: none Logged in as: Guest Tree http://forums.msexchange.org/m_140062900/tm.htm Style Printable Version All Forums >> [Microsoft Exchange 2003] >> Installation >> 8000ffff installation http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1493498 error on SBS2003/Exchange 2003 Page: [1] Login Message << Older Topic Newer Topic >> 8000ffff installation error on SBS2003/Exchange 2003 - 23.May2004 8:08:00 PM Mibble Posts: 4 Joined: 23.May2004 From: USA Status: offline Hello,We have an SBS2003 server, which had a name of 600SERVER. An MCSE came in, who works with ACCPAC, to install Ver 5.2, exchange system which interacts with IBM DB/2. Due to his limited skills and knowledge, which came out, he renamed the server to SERVERHALD without removing Exchange 2003, thus leaving exchange very unhappy. He then tried by demoting the server via dcpromo, deleted the folder EXCHSRVR, then recreated the domain. However, the system still has users named IUSR_600 SERVER and IWAM_600SERVER.Exchange will not install, the Component Messages are an unexpected error occured, ID no. 8000ffff, for exchange system manager all of exchange, ie system management tools, exchange messaging and collaboration service, exchange domain preparation and exchange forest preperation.To top it off, he has heavily modified the system, installing DB/2 and convertig all the ACCPAC files, and did not make a backup prior to working on the system.The system had only been live for one week, with everything working smoothly as a server, prior to him coming in and attempting to do his stuff. All the users have been deleted, (dcpromo demotion), do not want to have to reinstall ACCPAC, or reformat the system.Any ideas,help would be appreciated on getting Exchange working. The MCSE and the company he works for are no longer welcome in our office.Thanks! Post #: 1 Featured Links* RE: 8000ffff installation error on SBS2003/Exchange 2003 - 23.May2004 8:25:00 PM Henrik Walther Posts: 6928 Joined: 21.Nov.2002 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Status: offline Hi Mibble,As this seems to be a rather complicated problem, it would be very difficult to give you precise instructions via this message board. My suggestion is you hire a good experienced consultant with plenty of years in the field (instead of a Paper MCSE)to come help you clean up the mess which the other guy created. (in reply to Mibble) Post #: 2 RE: 8000ffff installation error on SBS200

Join INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMSFOR COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS Log In Come Join Us! Are you aComputer / IT professional?Join Tek-Tips Forums! Talk With Other Members Be Notified Of ResponsesTo Your Posts Keyword Search One-Click Access To YourFavorite Forums Automated SignaturesOn Your Posts Best Of All, It's Free! Join Us! *Tek-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Posting Guidelines Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.Tek-Tips Posting Policies Jobs Jobs from Indeed What: Where: jobs by Link To This Forum! Add Stickiness To Your Site By Linking To This Professionally Managed Technical Forum.Just copy and paste the BBCode HTML Markdown MediaWiki reStructuredText code below into your site. Microsoft: Exchange 2003 Forum at Tek-Tips HomeForumsMIS/ITGroupware & Mail ProductsMicrosoft: Exchange 2003 Forum Removing Exchange 2003 Error thread955-1493498 Forum Search FAQs Links MVPs Removing Exchange 2003 Error Removing Exchange 2003 Error boab1965 (TechnicalUser) (OP) 12 Aug 08 10:38 Hi all, sorry longish post coming upOver Christmas 2007 our exchange 2000 server collapsed. We had purchased two new servers and installed Server 2003 on each. x64 for Exchange 2007 and x32 for Logon/Data. Since we couldn't move directly from Exchange 2000 to 2007 we installed Exchange 2003 on the logon/data server and thought we could mount the old 2000 databases then migrate to 2007. Databases corrupt so that didn't work. Exchange 2003 was partially removed to allow the install of Exchange 2007 on the x64 server. Got that up and running and everything is working great. Only problem is our AV software and Exchange 2007 still sees the Exchange 2003.I'm now trying to remove Exchange 2003 completely. When I go to add/remove programs I can select Exchange the remove. I select the remove action and it asks for the disk to be loaded into the CD drive. I load the Exchange 2003 disk and let it run through the setup. After it decides to fail on all the tasks it comes back with the following errorAn unexpected error occurred.ID no: 8000ffffMicrosoft Exchange SetupThis happens on each of the following tasks.Microsoft Exchange System Management ToolMicrosoft Exchange Domain PreparationMicrosoft Exchange Forest PreparationMicrosoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration ServicesAny one got any ideas what is causing the error and/or how to get round it.Many ThanksRobert RE: Removing Exchange 2003 Error bo