We had a similar situation, had to install it on a test SQL server (long story) then move it to a prod SQL server. You don't have to uninstall just move the SQL Store around. This process is a bit of a PITA but does work. The steps are basically
* Add a Standard Edition pool to you topology (It uses a local SQL Express type instance) * Move the Central Management Server role to the Standard Edition server * This allows you to remove the Central Management Server (old SQL server) from the topology * Backup the DB of the old SQL server * Update the topology with the new SQL server * Restore the DB on the new SQL server * Move the Central Management Server Role to the new server * Remove the Standard Edition Pool Here is the how to that I used, follow step by step for the most part. http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2010/12/20/change-a-pool-database-instance-when-the-pool-hosts-the-central-management-server.aspx It's a whole lot of fun... From: Phil Marcum [mailto:nusolm...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 5:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Lync uninstallation assistance Kewl! I recently performed an install to a single-forest / single-domain environment to a remote standalone SQL database server. In this setup I have a W2K8 server running as the FEP along with another W2K8 server designated as the archive / monitoring server. The W2K3 AD schema was extended at the forest with the new attributes and the SQL instance was created allowing for a successful installation of the configuration store. That design has changed and I now need to install to a database to be created on a new W2K8 sql cluster. I don't have a test bed to test against so I'm running wild in production. From the looks of it I can navigate to the Control Panel and remove it but I'm looking for a way to remove the schema attributes along with removing the databases from the sql server. I've yet to run across a complete step-by-step so I'm wondering if anyone has run across any gotchas, can provide any direction, or links on this process? Any responses appreciated. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote: There is a yahoo group. But go ahead and ask here. Several of us run Lync. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Phil Marcum [mailto:nusolm...@gmail.com<mailto:nusolm...@gmail.com>] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 4:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Lync uninstallation assistance Would anyone from the list be able to answer a few questions regarding the removal of Lync 2010? If not are there any Lync discussion lists available anyone can point me to? --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
