Having problems uninstalling MOSS 2007...Uninstall box dissapears after you accept and hit the OK button?? - Jason Medero SharePoint MVP: SharePoint Space for all things SharePoint, OCS, RMS, InfoPath, and Office

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Having problems uninstalling MOSS 2007...Uninstall box dissapears after you accept and hit the OK button??

Jason Medero SharePoint MVP: SharePoint Space for all things SharePoint, OCS, RMS, InfoPath, and Office

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Jason Medero, MCP, MCT, MCTS, MVP (WSS) is a systems architect with a concentration in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and its related Microsoft technologies. He is a managing partner of B&R Business Solutions, a central New Jersey-based firm specializing in SharePoint and surrounding technologies, infrastructure, real-time communications (OCS), and application development. He is an active member of the SharePoint User Group in New York City where he sits on the speaker selection committee. He also contributes his SharePoint knowledge as a mentor for some of the popular forums (MSD2D, MSDN).

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After applying MOSS SP1 I was having some database issues when running the sharepoint config wizard to complete the upgrade. I decided that I was going to completely blow away the server and start from scratch. Ok that’s easy enough unless when you attempt to uninstall MOSS 2007 and select ok the box disappears and MOSS does NOT get uninstalled…OUCH!

So after about an hour of fiddling with it I decided that I was just going to remove the server from the farm from central admin ( I am running a medium farm with multiple WFE’s). To do this go to Operations>>Servers in Farm>> and click on the link below . Once I removed the server from the farm magically I could then uninstall MOSS 2007 woohooo battle has been won…for now.

Posted 07-31-2008 6:13 PM by Jason Medero

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James Veale wrote re: Having problems uninstalling MOSS 2007...Uninstall box dissapears after you accept and hit the OK button??

on 11-05-2008 3:58 AM

Well unfortunately I still dont get MOSS 2007 uninstalled. The uninstall box still disappears on my system :(

ndongally wrote re: Having problems uninstalling MOSS 2007...Uninstall box dissapears after you accept and hit the OK button??

on 03-13-2009 11:53 AM

I am having the same problems. How did you resolve this?

Dee Kumar wrote re: Having problems uninstalling MOSS 2007...Uninstall box dissapears after you accept and hit the OK button??

on 04-14-2009 12:25 PM

Excellent. Worked. I had 3 servers.......2 WFEs........and 1 App Server with CA website. First, I removed both WFEs from Farm and then uninstalled from both. No Issues. Then I simply un-installed from CA server and it worked. All uninstalled were performed by running setup.exe and choosing 'Remove' option.

Had to delete databases from DB server manually but thats OK. Thank you very much for sharing information.

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