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