Confirm unneeded OU structure
Mayo, Bill
We have had Exchange on-prem for a long time, going all the way back to 5.5. We also had Cisco Unity installed, again going back a long time to when it did a lot of interesting things. We no longer have Unity in any flavor and I am trying to address some cleanup for things related to that.
As a result, I have an OU that I think is related to the old version of Exchange and/or old version of Unity, but I want to do a sanity check before I delete it. The structure is:
ADMIN
>Exchange
>>Recipients
>>>Distribution Lists
The only thing under that were some Unity DLs under the last item (now deleted). The whole “ADMIN” thing at the top I think goes back to an organizational decision made and is pretty indicative to me that it is not something Exchange did by default. However, I could see where the underlying structure may logically have been created by some version of Exchange. We are on 2016 now, and have the cursory “Microsoft Exchange Security Groups” and “Microsoft Exchange System Objects” OU’s, which I believe are what is currently used.
So, at long last, my question. Can I get rid of that ADMIN directory structure? If not clear, is there any place I can check to see if Exchange is somehow using this still?
Bill Mayo
Michael B. Smith
No, Exchange doesn’t use those. Didn’t ever, as far as I remember. Unity did need to know where its users and DLs were stored.
If you are nervous – just rename the OU. See if Exchange complains. I don’t think it will.
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Mayo, Bill
Thanks, as always, Michael!
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Aakash Shah
And just in case, ensure you have the AD Recycle Bin enabled so if problems occur after renaming and deleting it, you have a recovery path.
-Aakash Shah
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