Topic Last Modified: 2012-10-04

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, you must remove the SQL Store definition from Topology Builder.

To remove a Front End Server pool

  1. Open Topology Builder.

  2. Navigate to the Lync Server 2010 node.

  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.

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

To remove a Standard Edition Front End server

  1. Open Topology Builder.

  2. Navigate to the Lync Server 2010 node.

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

  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.

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