Can't uninstall Reporting Services

Can't uninstall Reporting Services

• Ernie_Quest

  I actually did, but I am afraid that I cannot explain exactly what I did that fixed the problem, as it has been a while now, and I tried so many permutations.

  I think the trick may have been to run a repair on reporting services (from Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs), followed by a reboot, and then a removal with IIS turned off.

  Good luck!

  
  
  

• scornful

  There is no need to uninstall/upgrade IIS. Just stop IISAdmin and try uninstall again. It works!
  

• DenverCoder

  I was so fed up with the problem that I completely reinstalled the system. I helped :)

  
  

• Arsalan Minhas

  Thanks KDog! Uninstalling IIS worked!
  
  

• Pedro J. Molina

  I've got the same problem here unstalling the September CTP Reporting services - please do post if you found a solution,
  
  Thanks,
  
  Mike
  

• tfrazier

  FOUND FIX!
  
  1) Uninstall IIS
  2) Disable my primary web server Apache
  3) Uninstall RS
  
  Worked like a charm!
  
      Kristian Wedberg
  
  
  

• Mutt10R

  Same happening here
  
  Again do not want to do a full rebuild
  
  Did anyone yet find a fix.
  
  

• joltinjoe02

  This worked when I had problems with Visual Studio Tools for Office... may work here too.
  
  You can remove the files afterwards.  It may leave some lingering traces though - use at your own risk!
  
  http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao/archive/2005/08/01/445841.aspx
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;290301
  

  Manual Uninstall using MSIZAP

  Sometimes the VS component may not appear in the add/remove program list, but VS setup thinks it is installed. Below are some steps you could try to perform manual clean up if the uninstall fails either by using the uninstall tool or uninstalling through the add/remove program entries.

  1. Visit VS uninstall instructions at http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao/archive/2005/07/30/445224.aspx to get a list of components to be uninstalled.
  2. Download msiinv.exe from www.huydao.net/setup/msiinv.zip (You need to unzip it to get msiinv.exe).
  3. Run msiinv.exe on the targeted box and save the output into a text file. This output gives you the current installed products/components.
  4. Compare the output of msiinv.exe to the list of VS components that need to be uninstalled and identify what components are left behind.
  5. Download msizap.zip from www.huydao.net/setup/msizap.zip (You need to unzip it to get msizap.exe) or get it from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;290301
  6. Run msizap.exe for each product code to manually uninstall the components left on the box. Examples below
     • msizap.exe {D0FD5369-C4AC-4F9A-BB20-C8458F2EE5C2}
     • msizap.exe {085DF72B-2571-4099-8D3C-699E9E163C5F}
     • msizap.exe {BFDFE03F-B24E-422A-8AC0-BC51B6A128DE}

  
  
  
  

• sbondale

  Paul, were you ever able to find a way around this I'm also having this problem. Any suggestions
  
  

• David_Som

  I am also having the same problem,  Is there a way I can get around this without havin got rebuild my machine
  

• AJB

  I ran into the same problem. Based on KDog's suggestion, I stopped IIS before running the uninstall. That seemed to do the trick as well.
  

• NealG

  Does anyone have any updates on this. I am naving the same issue as Botia. I need to uninstall the default instance of RS 2005 on a production box, but I am getting the MimeMap error.

  I have tried...

  a) Using the RS config tool to re-create the IIS Virtual directories.

  b) deleting the virtual directories in IIS, and then re-creating them using the RS config tool.

  c) stopping the IIS service during the install.

  d) stopping the Default Website during installation.

  I want to avoid having to completely reinstall SQL Server and/or IIS because this is a production box.

  FYI, I need to uninstall the default instance of RS 2005 because I need to install RS 2000 to support an application, and it can only install as the default instance.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  
  
  

• UriPar

  This worked for me.
  

• Jules Stohr

  The suggestion works great...thanks

  Sumit

  
  
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