Uninstall sccm 2012 agent

Review boundaries, boundary groups, and fallback relationships. If you assign clients to a new site, but don't change the boundaries, they may be considered roaming. For more information, see Define site boundaries and boundary groups. Make sure all active clients are reassigned to another primary site in the hierarchy. Otherwise clients will be unmanaged after you uninstall the site.

For more information, see How to assign clients to a site. Make sure that you've properly sized the other site systems with this role in the other site.

They will need to support your business requirements for performance and availability with the additional clients. If this site has lots of clients, reassign them in stages. Monitor database replication as clients refresh full inventory and other site-specific data. If you manage software updates, clients will assign to a new software update point. This behavior causes a full scan for update compliance. Client reassignment may impact reports and queries that rely on inventory data, and state-based compliance.

Consider temporarily adjusting any client cycles during the transition. Check if any actively used objects in the hierarchy have static references to the site code. For example, collection queries, task sequences, or administrative scripts. If the hierarchy uses a fallback site for automatic site assignment, make sure it doesn't reference this primary site. Reconfigure any client installation methods that may reference a static site code. If this primary site has any site-specific cloud-attached services, make sure to remove them.

If you still need the cloud resources, move them to another primary site in the hierarchy. Remove them from the primary site that you're going to uninstall, and add them to another primary site. If this primary site has any discovery methods for the hierarchy, move them to another site. Retire any site-based OS deployment media. Uninstall all site system roles from the site and the site server.

For more information, see Uninstall site system roles. While this preparation step isn't required, it helps identify any additional dependencies before uninstalling the site.

Uninstall any secondary sites under this primary site. For more information, see the Secondary site section. You run Configuration Manager setup to uninstall a primary site that doesn't have an associated secondary site.

Use the following procedure to uninstall a primary site:. If the primary site server is no longer available, use the Hierarchy Maintenance Tool at the CAS to delete the primary site from the site database. Start Configuration Manager setup on the primary site server by using one of the following methods:. Make sure this version is the same as the site version.

When a secondary site is attached to the primary site, you must remove the secondary site before you can uninstall the primary site. An unexpected external change could automatically trigger a large number of devices to uninstall the application. A background worker process runs on the site server every 10 minutes. This task keeps track of apps for which you've enabled this option. It then detects resources that you removed from the target collection.

The client needs to download policy. By default, the client policy polling interval client setting is 60 minutes. To accelerate this step, manually download policy.

Depending upon the timing of those steps, the longest time period for the client to uninstall the app is 85 minutes. If the first step happens immediately, and you manually download policy on the device, the overall process is 15 minutes.

You configure an app's installation behavior to Install for system , and then deploy it to a user collection. A device has multiple users who are both in the collection, and the app installs on the device.

If you then remove one user from the collection, the app is uninstalled from the device for all users. How to manage collections. Monitor applications from the Configuration Manager console. Log file reference. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.

Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Tip Version and later supports Implicit uninstall. Note When you select a deployment action of Uninstall , the deployment purpose is automatically configured as Required.

Note In version and later, this behavior applies to deployments to device or user collections. Important Be careful with enabling this option on deployments to large query-based collections.

Note For this behavior, the site can process up to collection membership changes every 10 minutes. The ConfigMgrSetup. Peeking into System Management container, there are no entries related to primary site server. This means your primary site has been uninstalled cleanly. Hi I am getting error to uninstall CAS after failed installation attempt. Their is no primary site this is first cas server.

Please help. I have removed and restarted. I copied ccmsetup. Is there another way to cleanly remove it? I guess I will have to modify the registery. Any other options to get these to properly uninstall?

If the provider is marked as critical, the Windows Deployment Services server will be shut down. Because the provider is not marked as critical, the Windows Deployment Services server will continue to run. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event. I have a scenario where i have mistakenly installed CAS instead of a Primary site which led me to have to uninstall CAS using the method above.

This is a great site — all actions are very clearly written and very accurate. Well done to you Mr Desai. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.