Remove Identity Management for UNIX Components

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003 R2

Identity Management for UNIX is considered a role service, or a software subcomponent, of the Active Directory Domain Services server role.

To remove Identity Management for UNIX

Remove Identity Management for UNIX by using the Windows interface

Remove Identity Management for UNIX by using a command line

Remove Identity Management for UNIX by using the Windows interface

To remove Identity Management for UNIX by using the Windows interface

  1. Open Server Manager. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager..

  2. In the Active Directory Domain Controller area's list of common tasks, click Remove Role Services.

  3. On the Select Role Services page of the Remove Role Services Wizard, clear the check box for Identity Management for UNIX or the parts of Identity Management for UNIX that you want to remove, and then click Next.

  4. After verifying your selections on the Confirm Removal Selections page, click Remove.

Note

You must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer to remove Identity Management for UNIX components.
Server Manager is available only to members of the Administrators group on the local computer. By default, Server Manager opens when an administrator logs on to the computer. You can open Server Manager from the Start menu, the Quick Launch toolbar, or from within Administrative Tools.

Remove Identity Management for UNIX by using a command line

Server Manager command line tools allow you to install or remove roles, role services, or features in a Windows Command Prompt. Identity Management for UNIX can be removed by using the Server Manager line command because it is a role service of the Active Directory Domain Services role.

You can run the Server Manager line command, ServerManagerCmd.exe, from within any directory on the local computer. You must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer to run the Server Manager command.

Important

Because of security restrictions imposed by User Account Control in Windows Server 2008, you must run ServerManagerCmd.exe in a Command Prompt window opened with elevated privileges. To do this, right-click the Command Prompt executable, or the Command Prompt object on the Start menu, and then click Run as administrator.

Note

Other parameters are available for this command, such as -restart, which automatically restarts the computer after removal if it is required by the programs you have removed. It is recommended that you read about additional Server Manager command line parameters in the topic "Overview of Server Manager Commands" in the Server Manager Help.

To remove Identity Management for UNIX by using a command line

  • In a Command Prompt window opened with elevated privileges, type one of the following and press ENTER.

    • ServerManagerCmd.exe -remove ADDS-Identity-Management to remove all of Identity Management for UNIX

    • ServerManagerCmd.exe -remove ADDS-NIS to remove Server for NIS only

    • ServerManagerCmd.exe -remove ADDS-Password-Sync to remove Password Synchronization only

    • ServerManagerCmd.exe -remove ADDS-IDMU-Tools to remove the administration tools for Identity Management for UNIX only

Note

Add the -whatIf parameter to your command to instruct Server Manager to show the list of all software that is removed by default as a result of the command.

Additional removal tasks

The single sign-on daemon (SSOD) is installed on all UNIX computers with which passwords are synchronized. If the UNIX computers are no longer synchronizing passwords with other Windows-based servers on the network running Password Synchronization, you can remove the SSOD files from the UNIX computers.