{"id":36,"date":"2015-06-12T02:04:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dv8tor.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2015-06-12T02:04:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T02:04:55","slug":"exchange-2003-server-uninstall-fails-with-error-0x8000ffff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Exchange 2003 Server uninstall fails with error 0x8000ffff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pesky one. The last step of the decommissioning of an Exchange 2003 server from the Add\/Remove Programs option (after correctly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petenetlive.com\/KB\/Article\/0000234.htm\" target=\"_blank\">removing all per-requisites<\/a>) and bam- this error pops up on uninstall.<\/p>\n<p>Reason being- the error points to (but does not explain) the installation media path\/disk not being able to be found so the uninstall can continue. Now, I&#8217;d seen this before with another uninstall but it actually <em>prompted<\/em> me for a network path for the media (This was Exchange 2003 Std versus Enterprise this time, but really this shouldn&#8217;t differ!)<\/p>\n<p>Either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run the setup from the Exchange media and uninstall this way or<\/li>\n<li>Download the media (if you&#8217;d lost it like I had) and uninstall as per above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That worked a treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pesky one. The last step of the decommissioning of an Exchange 2003 server from the Add\/Remove Programs option (after correctly removing all per-requisites) and bam- this error pops up on uninstall. Reason being- the error points to (but does not explain) the installation media path\/disk not being&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/?p=36\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsus","tag-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}