Uninstall the Sitecore XM Scaled topology

Uninstall a Sitecore instance using SIF

You can use SIF to uninstall a Sitecore instance/role from a local server.

To uninstall a Sitecore instance:

1. Launch PowerShell as an administrator.

2. Run the Uninstall-SitecoreConfiguration cmdlet, and specify the path to your SIF configuration file.

   For example, using the sitecore-XM1-cm.json file:

   Uninstall-SitecoreConfiguration –Path <configurationpath>\sitecore-XM1-cm.json

   Alternatively, you can pass in the parameters declared in the SIF configuration files by prefixing their name with a dash “-" in the command line.

   For example:

   Uninstall-SitecoreConfiguration -Path <configurationpath>\sitecore-XM1-cm.json -SqlDbPrefix SC.

   In a PowerShell command line, you can pass additional parameters to control the uninstall process.

   For example, running the Verbose cmdlet increases the amount of information that is logged, and the -Skip <taskname> cmdlet skips one or more tasks.

To correctly uninstall a SIF configuration, you must pass the same parameters that were used during the installation.

The uninstall is performed by a separate list of tasks within the configuration file. For more information, see the SIF documentation.

Uninstalling the XM Scaled topology in a distributed environment

Centralized uninstallation of distributed deployments is not supported yet. If you need to re-install a scaled deployment you must remove everything that was installed during the previous installation from each individual computer.