Uninstall Prerequisites including WinCC OA 3.17

The uninstallation program does not uninstall the prerequisites. However, if you uninstall using the custom Installation mode, it displays a list of prerequisites used by Desigo CC when you run the Uninstall Wizard. You can copy them for further reference.

Uninstall Prerequisites Including WinCC OA 3.17

If the Desigo CC prerequisites are no longer used by another application, you can uninstall them separately from Control Panel > Programs and Features.

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NOTE:
For upgrading Desigo CC on the same Server from V2.1/V3.0/V4.0 to V5.0, you do not need to uninstall any prerequisite of Desigo CC as Installer automatically uninstalls and upgrades all the required prerequisites, before installing the required version.

1. In the Program and Features window, select one by one, each of the following prerequisite and right-click and select Uninstall.

• Automation License Manager

• License Management Utility (LMU)

• Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR)

• Visual Studio 2010 Redistributables SP1_x64

• Visual Studio 2010 Redistributables SP1_x86

• Visual Studio 2012 Re-distributable SP1_x64

• Visual Studio 2012 Re-distributable SP1_x86

• Visual Studio 2013 Re-distributables_x64

• Visual Studio 2013 Re-distributables_x86

• Visual Studio 2019 Redistributables_x64

• Visual Studio 2019 Redistributables_x86

• WinCC OA 3.17

• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 - Express Edition

• OPC Core Components

2. Click Yes.

• The uninstallation program completes without displaying any verification message.

 

Uninstall WinCC OA

Perform the following procedure to completely uninstall the prerequisite WinCC OA.

Information

NOTE:
You do not need to uninstall WinCC OA for upgrading Desigo CC from V3.0 to V4.0, because, while installing the current version, the Installer automatically uninstalls any previous version of WinCC OA, before installing the required version WinCC OA 3.17.

1. In the Program and Features window, select:

• the Desigo CC Base Platform 3.10 for V 1.1.
  In V 2.0, select WinCC OA 3.11 SP1.
  In V 2.1, select WinCC OA 3.13.
  In V 3.0, select WinCC OA 3.15.
  In V 4.0, select WinCC OA 3.16
  In V 5.0, select WinCC OA 3.17.

• the Desigo CC Base platform 3.10 Patch for V 1.1.
  In V 2.0, select WinCC OA 3.11 SP1 Patch.
  Not applicable for later versions of Desigo CC .

2. Right-click and select Uninstall.

3. Click Yes.

• The uninstallation program completes.

4. Delete the C:\[company name]\WinCC_OA folder, if present.

5. (Optional) Restart the computer.