Terminal Services Uninstall

[Hondy]

Hi

I want to uninstall TS on some remote servers. It tells me that all programs installed since TS was installed will no longer work.

Is this correct? For example one has SQL server installed, will it destroy that SQL installation??

Thanks

 

[Roadki11]

the potential is there for a problem but i have done it many times and never had an issue.

RoadKi11

 

[itsp1965]

Hondy, are you attempting to un-install TS for application services or remote administration. Remote Administration is on by default and can only be disabled but not un-installed. Application mode can be installed and should not have any impact on your currently installed apps (as per RoadKi11)
Hope this helps.

 

[Hondy]

I'm attempting to uninstall TS for remote admin, it was installed in error and now suffering licensing issues.

I need to roll it back to the "default" remote admin as currently it is using terminal services remote admin - i.e. TS installed in control panel but using remote admin option.

Do you know of any docs I can reference to show that apps already installed won't be affected?

Also, do I then need to tick the allow RDP box in the system properties?

Ideally I would just turn off term services and continue to access via RDP. My issue is the temporary licenses which is not a problem using default remote admin.

Thanks

 

[Hondy]

From poking around it appears that i can uninstall the TS in control panel and add in the remote access.

I just need to know why when you remove TS does it say "some programs my not work" after removing TS?

Thanks

 

[technome]

Sounds like you installed it in application mode. Not sure of the damage if you uninstall

IF you installed TS for administration, not App mode, you have two free connections. Reinstall it in non app mode, TS for administration is too good to do without.


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[Hondy]

technome - it was TS installed but in administration mode, but the problem with this is that it used licenses, I only needed the basic admin mode using the 2 licenses. I uninstalled the TS service on all remote servers sucessfully, the only thing I needed to do was have someone allow RDP connections locally at the server.

I never removed the licensing server option on advice from another article but all apps seem to work as expected, thanks for the advice.

Cheers

 

[itsp1965]

Hondy, TS admin mode does not require the use of TS licensing service since this is ONLY for TS in application mode. Win2K3 installs TS for admin by default (and needs to be activated in System Properties->Remote)
Since you never installed TS in app mode, then neither were your applications, therefore there would not be any problem in regards to your apps
Hope that clarifies things

 

[Hondy]

itsp1965 - interesting, do you know why temporary licenses were issued? This was the main problem, even though for admin the remote PCs licenses expired. So although should allow 2 connections if they had been issued a temp license they couldn't connect. Removing TS resolved this by removing the need for licenses.

Anyway, it works now

Cheers