How to Remove a Site
This topic provides steps for removing a site in Commerce Server 2009. When you remove a site, the site configuration data is deleted from the Administration database. After you remove a site, you cannot undo the deletion.
Removing a Commerce site involves deleting the databases, virtual directories, folders, files, and jobs that are associated with the removed site.
To delete the site databases
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Make sure that SQL Server is running. If it is not running, right-click the name of the computer that is running SQL Server, and then click Start.
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In SQL Server, delete your site databases.
Note:If you must delete the database connection strings, first, detach the databases.
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In Windows Explorer, move to the folder \Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data, and delete the database file.
Note:You must delete the database file after detaching the database or your Commerce Server installation will not function correctly.
To delete the site OLAP databases
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In SQL Server, delete the site OLAP databases.
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Expand the nodes to the following path: \Analysis Servers\SQL Server Name.
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Right-click the database that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
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Repeat step 3 for each database that you want to delete.
To delete the site virtual directories
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In Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, expand the nodes to the following path: \<computer name>\<IIS Web site name>.
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Right-click the virtual directories that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
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Repeat step 2 for each virtual directory that you want to delete.
To delete the site folders and files
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In Windows Explorer, move to the directory where the site files are installed, for example, C:\Inetpub\wwwroot.
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Right-click the folder that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
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Repeat step 2 for each folder that you want to delete.
To delete the Direct Mailer jobs
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In SQL Server, move to the folder where you store your Direct Mailer jobs.
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Select the Direct Mailer job(s) that you want to delete, and then click Delete.