Free Guidance to Uninstall Lync Server 2010 and Remove Server Roles

IT professionals have been able to at least test drive Lync Server 2010 for months now, with Microsoft making sure that they have comprehensive planning and deployment guidance at their disposal. At the same time, the Redmond company is making sure that IT pros can also access resources designed to help them uninstall the unified communications solution as well as remove any associated server roles.

According to the software giant, the “Uninstalling Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Removing Server Roles” documentation is designed to guide admins through the complex process of uninstalling Lync 2010 as a part of an organization’s maintenance tasks.

“To maintain any system, you need to modify the deployment over time. An important part of maintenance is the retiring or decommissioning of existing components that you replace with different or newer components. “Uninstalling Lync Server 2010 and Removing Server Roles” includes procedures for removing server roles and decommissioning a deployment,” Microsoft states.

IT pros taking advantage of the guidance provided by the software giant will be able to simplify their work in two areas: removing server and server roles and decommissioning a deployment.

These are also the two main sections of the documentation available through the “Uninstalling Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Removing Server Roles” download.

Customers that simply want to test such a process can grab the trial releases of Lync 2010 which are available free of charge from Microsoft, set up a testing environment, deploy the UC offering and subsequently move to remove it.

“The first section, Removing Servers and Server Roles, includes the procedures you need to perform to remove specific servers or server roles. For example, removing an A/V Conferencing pool or a Front End pool,” Microsoft added.

“The second section, Decommissioning a Deployment, provides step-by-step guidance for removing a complete Lync Server 2010 deployment. For example, removing a deployment from a test lab as part of a move to a Production system, or as part of a redesign of the current Lync Server 2010 deployment prior to deploying the new design.”