How to manually clean your SCCM server roles off the box
Occasionally it becomes necessary to manually clean off a server of SCCM components. When that becomes necessary I usually tell customers to just flatten and rebuild the box, but that is not always an option. In those cases I have this mental list of things I go through to remove all the traces that SCCM/SMS could leave on the machine. Not every machine will have all of these locations populated. Every scenario has its nuances so don’t blindly follow this if you want a clean box but consider if each item is relevant to what you are trying to accomplish. If you think I missed anything, comment below and I’ll update as appropriate.
- File System
- \Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager
- \Program Files\SMS_CCM
- \sms
- \windows\ccm
- \windows\ccmsetup
- \windows\ccmcache
- Registry
- HKLM\software\Microsoft\sms
- HKLM\software\Microsoft\ccm
- HKLM\software\Wo6432Node\Microsoft\sms
- HKLM\software\Wo6432Node\Microsoft\CCM
- Services
- SMS_executive
- SMS_Site_Component_Manager
- SMS_Site_Backup
- SMS_Site_SQL_Backup
- SMS_SITE_VSS_Writer
- SMS Agent Host
- WMI
- root\sms
- root\ccm
Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
C:windowssystem32ccmcore.dll