[AccessD] Autoremoval of SQL Server Express 2005 when uninstalling Business Contact Manager for Outlook

William Benson vbacreations at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 19:41:53 CST 2011


STUART NOT STU.... APOLOGIES!
On Nov 20, 2011 8:41 PM, "William Benson" <vbacreations at gmail.com> wrote:

> You asked "was..." it is not something I had thought to check at the time.
> I can check if it is still there but from the way you phrased the question
> Stu I get sense it would be gone now and therefore not able to be verified?
> If I can find BCM for O somewhere I might try installing it again to check
> the removal process out more thoroughly.
>
> Thanks for the idea on this.
> On Nov 20, 2011 4:35 PM, "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> wrote:
>
>> Was the only instance of SQL Server in " Services" named "MSSMLBIZ" ?
>>
>> If so, it was installed by Business Contact Manager as a named instance
>> and correctly
>> removed.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Stuart
>>
>> On 20 Nov 2011 at 13:34, William Benson wrote:
>>
>> > A minor beef, I wonder if others have shared this experience.
>> >
>> > When uninstalling Outlook Business Contact Manager 2007, the uninstaller
>> > also removed SQL Server 2005 Express.
>> >
>> > I have no way to know when that item had been installed, but it looks to
>> > have been permanently removed by the uninstaller, sure enough.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts on why Microsoft would do that? I thought SQL Server
>> Express
>> > was a free Sql Server engine?
>> >
>> > I imagine there are places I can download it from again, but why would
>> > Microsoft put me through this hassle I wonder, just because I was taking
>> > some other softwars off my machine?
>> >
>> > I recognize that *maybe* had I selected Custom and made choices to keep
>> > certain items and remove only certain items, I might have had the
>> option to
>> > retain SQL Server 2005 Express, however my feeling on this is that
>> there is
>> > no way I would have no reason to presuppose (and didn't) I was removing
>> an
>> > unrelated product during a removal of Business Contact Manager for
>> Outlook.
>> >
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