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We have uninstalled an unused instance of BES on a customers SBS 2003 server. We removed the siftware through Add and Remove Programs. However, the SQL instance appears to still be available. The service has been stopped, but we would like to completely remove it.<br />
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Any suggestions please?
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We have uninstalled an unused instance of BES on a customers SBS 2003 server. We removed the siftware through Add and Remove Programs. However, the SQL instance appears to still be available. The service has been stopped, but we would like to completely remove it.

Any suggestions please?

SBS 2003, BES, SQL

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005

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