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The removal of SBC

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wpn:
my bad, from the sharpness in your answers i figured you used a production machine :) (some people do that because of the lack of a test machine)...

Your tip for the never install in a clean enviroment is partially good but not all ;)
if you install in a clean enviroment and it works its ok, if you then install it on a test enviroment with the exact buildup as you production enviroment and it doesnt work, then you know that it is a setting/program somewhere that is messing up since it works in a clean enviroment.
with a virtual enviroment its easy to create an exact copy (at least the most important parts) of the production enviroment when needed.


yes now its more clear what you meant, you see after (miss)understanding each other and discussing things it gets more clear

It would be nice yes if an uninstaller could remove the databases from SBC from SQL server and the SBC management website from IIS without uninstalling the role and features...

Im not sure if SQL 2008 express has different database instances like you can make with the paid server product. So that would mean deleting the databases itself from the running instance (which is actually a viable option, IF the databases are deleted by named deletion and not by a DELETE *  ;))

jx:
There will be no single feature to remove all pieces of software that we installed during the installer.

Suppose you are installing this on a brand new server... All right, you installed avast Admin console and it's prerequisites here... Two months later you notice that this server actually does not really get utilized all that much...so you decide to host the company intranet here, because you have the IIS here anyway. Go for it, fine... Another two months pass, and let's say that your accounting department needs to install this brand new really cool accounting system...and they need an instance of SQL server of some kind. All right, your server is still not utilized and you can use the SQL Server instance that we installed for admin console... Everything runs fine... Two databases on SQL server, several virtual folder in your IIS and avast admin console can live together.

Now after a year you figure that you don't want to run our admin console, because you feel that the license is too expensive or you just don't like the product of what ever. You uninstall the administration console. Would it be wise to uninstall the SQL server instance and the IIS as well?

We won't provide any uninstaller for IIS/SQL Express. The uninstaller should ask you if you wish to drop the admin console server's DB, but thats about as far as we can go safely without the risk of killing your valuable data.

jx

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