AD LDS and '"the 2008" ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode). If you have ever tried to install Microsoft ISA Server 2006, ADAM is installed in support of Internet Security and Accelration Server. So far, so smooth he say 'someone ... but we come to the crux of this post, or manual removal of AD LDS and when 'can remove it using the Application Wizard snapin of Microsoft Windows.
Lately I've been working on a Microsoft Forefront TMG Server installation, after "things from messing up, I decided to uninstall and reinstall from scratch. Like every other Windows user, open the Application Wizard (appwiz.cpl) and start the uninstall process that occurs flawlessly and as expected. But the problem ' was the removal of AD LDS. After uninstalling TDM, in fact, in the Application Wizard trace remains of the instance of AD LDS is installed with TDM but the menu item 'which allows us to start the uninstall process for this component, not was displayed.
Google does not have obtained any useful information to the resolution of my problem, so 'I decided to take the bull by the horns and make the manual cleaning of the registry until', in registry key HKLM \\ SOFTWARE \\ Microsoft \\ CurrentVersion \\ Uninstall \\ $ 0 ADAM_ISASTGCTRL (where the last key ISASTGCTRL and 'to be interpreted as the AD LDS instance name installed on your maccchina), I found a very nice value named UninstallString disnstallazione instance containing the command itself:
"C: \\ Windows \\ ADAM \\ adamuninstall.exe" / i: ISASTGCTRL
Ultimately, if there you find, like me, in the situation you want / need to uninstall an instance of AD LDS and Application Wizard appears more 'uninstall command as expected, run the command:
C: \\ Windows \\ ADAM \\ adamuninstall.exe s: