Topic Last Modified: 2011-04-06

This topic guides you through the process of removing a Front End pool or a Standard Edition Front End Server. When you remove a Front End pool, you remove each Front End Server that belongs to the pool as a part of the pool removal process. When you remove a Standard Edition Front End Server with the intent of deploying it to another role (for example removing a Front End Server to add it to a Front End pool), you must remove the SQL Store definition from Topology Builder.

To remove a Front End Server pool

  1. Log on to the computer where Topology Builder is installed as a member of the Domain Admins group and the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group.

  2. Start Topology Builder: Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Lync Server 2010, and then click Lync Server Topology Builder.

  3. Expand Enterprise Edition Front End pools, expand the Front End pool, right-click the Front End pool that you want to remove, and then click Delete.

    Warning:
    If you accidentally delete the wrong object and you have not published the topology yet, right-click the Lync Server 2010 node, click Download Topology, and then click Yes in Confirm Download Topology.

  4. Publish the topology, check replication status, and then run the Lync Server Deployment Wizard as needed.

    Note:
    For details, see Common Procedures for Removing Servers Running Lync Server and Lync Server Components.

To remove a Standard Edition Front End server

  1. Log on to the computer where Topology Builder is installed as a member of the Domain Admins group and the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group.

  2. Start Topology Builder: Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Lync Server 2010, and then click Lync Server Topology Builder.

  3. Expand Standard Edition Front End servers, right-click the Front End Server that you want to remove, and then click Delete.

    Warning:
    If you accidentally delete the wrong object and you have not published the topology yet, right-click the Lync Server 2010 node, click Download Topology, and then click Yes in Confirm Download Topology.

  4. Expand SQL stores, right-click the SQL Server database that is associated with the Standard Edition Front End Server, and then click Delete.

    Important:
    You must remove the definition of the collocated SQL Server databases from the Standard Edition Front End Server. If you do not remove the definition and you try to reassign the server, Lync Server Deployment Wizard reports that the server already exists in the topology.

  5. Publish the topology, check replication status, and then run the Lync Server Deployment Wizard as needed.

    Note:
    For details, see Common Procedures for Removing Servers Running Lync Server and Lync Server Components.