MOSS Administration: Uninstall guide for MOSS 2007

In this article I would like to describe the steps you need to follow, in order to uninstall Microsoft Office SharePoint Server properly. 1. Remove the server from the farm

• Open SharePoint Central Administration.
• Browse the Operations tab.
• Click Servers in farm under Topology and Services.
• Click Remove Server. Note that after removing the server, you would get and error page.

2. Delete the different databases

• Shared Services Provider database (e.g. SharedServices1_DB and SharedServices1_Search_DB)
• Config database (e.g. SharePoint_Config)
• Content databases (e.g. WSS_Content_Intranet, WSS_Content_MySite, WSS_Content_SSPAdmin and SharePoint_AdminContent_ID)
• Search database (e.g. WSS_Search_ServerName)

3. Delete the related web applications

• Go to Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
• Expand the node corresponding to your server.
• Expand the Web Sites node.
• Delete all web sites corresponding to the MOSS site to be uninstalled.

4. Remove the MOSS installation

• Open the Control Panel.
• Click Add or remove Programs.
• Scroll down to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007.
• Click the Remove button and follow the instructions.

I hope you find this guide helpful. Here are the links of two further posts that were very useful to me: Uninstall MOSS 2007 and Uninstalling MOSS 2007 Manually. Comments with corrections or improvements are welcomed :) Samar Hossam