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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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6.2. Deleting a Storage Group

Problem

You want to delete a storage group on an Exchange server.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Launch the Exchange System Manager (Exchange System Manager.msc).

  2. In the left pane, expand the appropriate Administrative Groups container, and then expand the Servers container.

  3. Expand the server that contains the target storage group.

  4. Right-click the storage group and choose Delete.

  5. Click Yes in the confirmation dialog.

Using VBScript

' This code deletes the selected storage group. 
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
 strComputerName = "<serverName>" ' e.g., "batman"
 strSGName = "<storageGroupName>" ' e.g., "New Storage Group"
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
  
  set theServer = CreateObject("CDOEXM.ExchangeServer")
  Set theSG = CreateObject("CDOEXM.StorageGroup")
  theServer.DataSource.Open strComputerName
  
  ' examine the SGs and see if we can find ours. This code will
  ' delete any SG whose name contains strSGName, so be careful!
   For Each sg In theServer.StorageGroups
      WScript.Echo "Examining " & sg
      isIn = InStr(1, UCase(sg), UCase(strSGName))
      If (isIn<>0) Then
         wscript.echo "Deleting " & sg
         theSG.DataSource.Open "LDAP://" & theServer.DirectoryServer & "/" & sg

        ' delete the storage group
        theSG.DataSource.Delete 
        WScript.Echo "Deleted SG " & sg   
      End if
   Next

Discussion

Unlike mailbox or public databases, the SG object itself doesn't really have any useful data in it; it's a container that points to a set of transaction logs and databases. Accordingly, when you remove ...

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