Uninstalling Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

There is a easy way to Perform "Uninstallation of MOSS" on a standalone/farm server. The only viable way of doing things in standalone is follow the order below; However, for Farm based MOSS installation there are few more steps to be followed, which can guarantee clean removal of the software.

Steps to remove MOSS from your System/Server.

1. Remove Server from Farm

In Central Admin, Operations tab, Server in farm -- Remove server.

A word of caution: Always remove the Database / SMTP Servers first before removing the SharePoint Farm as you would have less problems removing the DB from SQL later.

You'll probably get an error message after you click remove, since the server isn't able to render the page anymore.

2. Remove Databases

Content DB, Config, Search, SSP, Etc.

3. Remove Web Applications

Use the IIS Management Console, remove all web applications related to the MOSS site.

4. Rename the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12 to 12_OLD

Now you can remove MOSS via add/remove programs.

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