Got a small environment of Windows 2008 R2 STD with Exchange 2010 installed. We have migrated to a hosted exchange solution and want to uninstall Exchange 2010 the "right" way by going through Add/Remove. It is not letting me stating public folder replicas (see error below). I have manually removed everything from the default and system public folders in the EMC. I have tried to remove the database by going to EMC->MS Exchange On Premises->Organization Configuration->Mailbox under tab database management and get the same error.
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Microsoft Exchange Error -------------------------------------------------------- The public folder database 'Public Folder Database 1191584386' cannot be deleted. Public Folder Database 1191584386 Failed Error: The public folder database "Public Folder Database 1191584386" contains folder replicas. Before deleting the public folder database, remove the folders or move the replicas to another public folder database. For detailed instructions about how to remove a public folder database, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=81409&clcid=0x409.