Uninstall a service

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2008-06-05

You can uninstall a service if you do not want to retain a service or keep it on the server. You can uninstall a service when:

  • The service is no longer in use.

  • The service is moved to another server and you do not need it on the old server.

The service that is uninstalled stops running on the current server. The status changes to Stopped and the action changes to Start.

If you stop the Office SharePoint Server Search service, it deletes the index files permanently and you will not be able to recover them. The index files will not be available for all other Shared Services Providers (SSPs) as well.

Membership in the Farm Administrators group and the Administrators group on the local server computer is the minimum required to complete this procedure.

Uninstall a service

Use this procedure to uninstall a service on a server. This stops the selected service from running on the server that you have currently selected.

Uninstall a service

  1. On the top navigation bar of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Operations.

  2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Services on server.

  3. Click the Server list, and then click Change Server. The Select Server Web page dialog box appears.

  4. Select the server name from the list.

  5. Find the Office SharePoint Server Search and click the Stop button to its right.

  6. On the Office SharePoint Server Search page, click Stop.

  7. A dialog box appears, confirming if you want to uninstall the Office SharePoint Server Search service from the server.

    • For services such as Central Administration, Document Conversions Launcher Service, Document Conversions Load Balancer Service, Windows SharePoint Services Incoming E-Mail, and Windows SharePoint Services Web Application, a dialog box shows the message, “You have chosen to disable the service: <Service Name>: <Server Name>. Do you want to continue?”

    • For Windows SharePoint Services Help Search, a dialog box shows the message, “The Windows SharePoint Services Search service that was enabled on this server will be uninstalled and all index files will be deleted permanently.”

  8. Click OK.