Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

372 Part V: Administration of Windows SharePoint Services
Remove Windows SharePoint Services from a Virtual Server
You can remove Windows SharePoint Services either permanently or temporarily by
using HTML Administration or the command-line administration tool. Both of these
tools allow you to either preserve or delete content when you remove Windows
SharePoint Services.
You can use the unextendvs operation with the stsadm.exe command-line utility
to remove Windows SharePoint Services from a virtual server. For example, to
remove Windows SharePoint Services from a virtual server but preserve the content
databases, use the unextendvs operation with syntax such as the following:
Stsadm –o unextendvs –url http://My_Server
To remove Windows SharePoint Services from a virtual server and remove the
content databases permanently, use the unextendvs operation with syntax such as
the following:
Stsadm –o unextendvs –url http://My_Server –deletecontent
If you want to remove Windows SharePoint Services from a server computer
entirely, you can uninstall it by using Add Or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Uninstalling Windows SharePoint Services does not remove any related products,
such as the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (WMSDE), that were
installed. You must uninstall these programs separately.
Define Managed Paths
Using this setting, you can add or remove included and excluded paths to control
which areas of the URL namespace are managed by Windows SharePoint Services.
Many organizations installing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services already
have a Web server or server farm in use and must be able to identify areas of the
existing URL namespace that should not be managed by Windows SharePoint Services.
For example, if you have a Web application on your Web server already and
you install Windows SharePoint Services, you need a way to specify that Windows
SharePoint Services will not attempt to control content in or settings for that path.
In addition, the Define Managed Paths setting allows you to specify the paths
to use for Self-Service Site Creation. You can restrict Self-Service Site Creation users
to specific paths when they create sites. By default, the /sites path is created and
added as a path for Self-Service Site Creation users when you enable Self-Service Site
Creation. You can create other paths for Self-Service Site Creation users, or you can
remove the /sites path when you manage paths.
Note that you can also specify inclusions and create new paths when you use
Create A Top-Level Web Site from Windows SharePoint Services Central Administration.
If you select the Define Managed Paths item under Web Site Address, you will find that
you can specify paths to include or exclude, and you can even add new paths.
You can manage two categories of paths: included and excluded. An included
path indicates that Windows SharePoint Services manages that path. An excluded
path indicates that a different application manages the path and that Windows