How to Remove extra File Share Witness resources in Failover Cluster

Question

_{Monday, October 3, 2011 2:24 PM}

In Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Manager, I see some old File Share Witnesses listed in the Core Resources section. This is being used for Exchange 2010. The File Share Witnesses have been updated, but I would like to remove the old ones not being used anymore. Is there some command line way to do this?

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_{Tuesday, October 4, 2011 1:22 AM ✅Answered}

Made some additional progress, but still not sure why Exchange 2010 is not updating what is seen in the Failover Cluster Manager.

_{Monday, October 3, 2011 5:41 PM}

Yes, from a command prompt, you can issue:

cluster res "Resource Name" /delete

This should delete the resources. You might want to issue a "Cluster res" command before/after to list the resource names and confirm that it is deleted.

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_{Monday, October 3, 2011 5:58 PM}

Thanks! Will give it a try tonight.

_{Monday, October 3, 2011 11:20 PM}

I get an error when trying to delete the FSW because it says "the cluster resource cannot be deleted because it is a core resource"