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Subject: removed ISA2004 - now need to remove MSDE instance for it
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1/07/2008 08:03 PM  
We recently moved our SBS 2003 box to a new location and decided on a hardware based firewall.  I uninstalled ISA2004 but find the SQL MSDE instance for FWSC is still on the box.  When I go into add/remove there is no option to unistall it (the other SQL instances can be unistalled). 
 
Any idea how to remove this? 
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1/08/2008 08:01 PM  
Hate to tell you this but you need to be really careful here. This happened to me and I srcewed around with, trying to uninstall it and then trying to delete files and got into a real pickle. Everything eventually went rapidly downhill. It got to a state where MSDE would not uninstalll and it would not reinstall, so I could not even reinstall ISA to get to where I could uninstall the MSDE first. And then other systems started to be affects and my event logs were chock full of errors on boot up. I ended up throwing my hands up having to do a complete reinstall. If I found myself in this situation again I would make sure I found a GUARANTEED method of doing a CLEAN uninstall, either with advise from someone like the M&Ms or Eriq, maybe even paid, or even some paid advice from Microsoft. And if research and expert help did not point up a guaranteed method to do this, I would probably consider doing a restore from a recent backup back to a state before the ISA uninstall, then doing an uninstall of the MSDE first. Good luck.
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