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Deinstall of SMS Administrator Does Not Clean Registry

Article ID: 138236

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1 Standard Edition
Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS

After you deinstalling Systems Management Server Administrator, the registry still contain keys for Systems Management Server. The deinstall process leaves the Systems Management Server key with Components and Setup subkeys user:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server versions 1.1 and 1.2. We are researching this problem and will post new information in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodsms sms registry

Keywords: kbsetup KB138236