How to Remove WSUS manually - Intel by Diego Cabai

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How to Remove WSUS manually Follow this steps in order to remove the WSUS installation manually and then reinstall the software correctly. 1. Stop all WSUS related services, including the SQL Service or Windows Internal Database. 2. You need to delete the c:\Program Files\Update Services folder and all sub folders. 3. Remove the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Update Services key in the registry. 4. Remove all the WSUS Service keys in the registry, like the ones listed below: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSUS: API Remoting Web Service HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSUS: Client Web Service HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSUS: Client Web Service Methods HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSUS: Reporting Web Service HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSUS: Server Web Methods HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSUS: Server Web Service HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSUS: Update Regulation Web Methods HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSusCertServer HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WsusService 5. Clean up the MSI installation files with the MSI Clean tool that you can download from this address: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/MSICLEAN.htm 6. If you are not running any other IIS Sites on this server, then remove IIS from the server, using Add/Remove Windows Components. If there are other IIS virtual directories or sites on this server, then you can just remove the virtual directories that are related to WSUS like: Inventory DSSAuthWebService ApiRemoting30 Content ReportingWebService SelfUpdate ServerSyncWebService SimpleAuthWebService ClientWebService 7. Reboot the Server. 8. If you removed IIS, then Re-add it with the only the Core, ASP, and WWW Service Options. Make sure you do not delete the C:\WSUS folder because that is where your database and content folders are located. Your Drive letter for the WSUS folder may be different, depending where you defined your content to be. Once completing all these steps then you should be able to re-install the WSUS Server cleanly.

Added by Diego Cabai on May 9, 1:10 PM.

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