Windows built-in database removal method

Install Microsoft comes with some applications will use a database, WID (Windows Internal Database), the Chinese name is windows built-in databases.

Applications that are typically used in this database are as follows:

• Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS)
  
  

• Microsoft Windows Server Update Service
  
  

• Windows System Resource Manager

These applications and services use a single instance of the database

1 Installing the Windows Internal Database

You typically do not need to install the Windows internal database. Installed by the first application or service that needs it, if you want to install it manually, you can add it in the function of the Server Manager

2 Deleting the Windows Internal Database

because multiple applications and services use the same instance of a Windows internal database, deleting these applications and services does not delete the data store. If you have removed all applications and services that use the Windows internal Database , you can remove it by using the Server Manager Removal Feature Wizard.

Delete the built-in database is not deleted data, if you want to reload an app service, this time the source database file exists, you can go to the%systemroot%\wid\data\ path, find the database file to delete, such as ADFS is%systemroot%\wid\ Data\adfsartifactstore.mdf

Windows built-in database removal method