Uninstalling SharePoint Portal Server

You can remove Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Removing SharePoint Portal Server does not remove the component for backward-compatible document libraries (Web Storage System-based).

Removing SharePoint Portal Server does not remove Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (if installed). To fully remove SharePoint Portal Server, you must remove the following, in this order:

• SharePoint Portal Server
• Windows SharePoint Services
• SQL Server Desktop Engine (if installed)

Warning  Most files and subfolders located in installation folders will be removed. All Microsoft SQL Server databases will be detached, but not removed, from the database server. When you remove SharePoint Portal Server, all user data is left in the database files. These files are also left behind if you remove SQL Server Desktop Engine or Microsoft SQL Server.

Uninstall SharePoint Portal Server

1. Log on to the computer running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as a local or domain administrator.
2. Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
3. In the Add or Remove Programs dialog box, click Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
4. Click Change.
5. On the Welcome to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Setup Wizard page, click Next.
6. On the Maintenance Mode Options page, click Remove the server components of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and then click Next.
7. In the confirmation message box, click Yes to remove SharePoint Portal Server.
8. Click OK in the message that appears after SharePoint Portal Server has been removed.

You can now use Windows Control Panel to remove Windows SharePoint Services and SQL Server Desktop Engine (if installed).

Optionally, after you have removed SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, and SQL Server Desktop Engine (if installed), you can do the following:

1. If your installation of SharePoint Portal Server used SQL Server Desktop Engine, delete the folder \Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$SHAREPOINT on the operating system drive.
2. If your installation of SharePoint Portal Server used Microsoft SQL Server, do the following:
   1. Remove the following databases associated with SharePoint Portal Server:
      • site_name_PROF
      • site_name_SERV
      • site_name_SITE
      • SharePoint Portal Server configuration database. By default, this database is named SPS_Config_db.
   2. Remove all jobs for the SQL Server instance of SharePoint Portal Server. All relevant jobs are named site_name_SERV Subscription Cleanup.
3. Remove any application pools that were created by SharePoint Portal Server.