https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/unregistering-enterprise-geodatabase-data-store/m-p/1198536#M33648 <P>Greetings Esri community,</P><P>We have recently migrated our Enterprise Geodatabase onto a new machine via the backup/restore method, and registered the new EGDB from its new location.&nbsp; I would now like to unregister the old EGDB so we can remove it from its old location.&nbsp; Before I can do that, though, I also had several Data Store Items connected to the old EGDB registered through Portal, and cleared these out, as per Esri documentation, by:</P><UL><LI>Removing/Overwriting all feature services that reference the old DB.</LI><LI>Unchecking the servers that can access the corresponding Data Store Item via their portal ‘Settings’ page</LI><LI>Lastly, deleting the Data Store Item from Portal</LI></UL><P>However, when I go to Server Manager, the registered connections are still showing (circled in red: screenshot), still validate, and the option to delete is grayed-out because (as per the hover-over tool-tip): ‘This Data Store was registered through your portal and cannot be deleted’.&nbsp; They are also still showing within Server Admin Directory.</P><P>I would like to think that there is a way to remove these now-defunct registered connections but cannot seem to get rid of them.&nbsp; Does anyone know how to do this?</P><P>Thank you,</P><P>Greg</P><P>System Specs: ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.0; SQL Server 2016 (Windows)</P> Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:31:57 GMT GregCarlino2 2022-08-02T14:31:57Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/unregistering-enterprise-geodatabase-data-store/m-p/1198536#M33648 <P>Greetings Esri community,</P><P>We have recently migrated our Enterprise Geodatabase onto a new machine via the backup/restore method, and registered the new EGDB from its new location.&nbsp; I would now like to unregister the old EGDB so we can remove it from its old location.&nbsp; Before I can do that, though, I also had several Data Store Items connected to the old EGDB registered through Portal, and cleared these out, as per Esri documentation, by:</P><UL><LI>Removing/Overwriting all feature services that reference the old DB.</LI><LI>Unchecking the servers that can access the corresponding Data Store Item via their portal ‘Settings’ page</LI><LI>Lastly, deleting the Data Store Item from Portal</LI></UL><P>However, when I go to Server Manager, the registered connections are still showing (circled in red: screenshot), still validate, and the option to delete is grayed-out because (as per the hover-over tool-tip): ‘This Data Store was registered through your portal and cannot be deleted’.&nbsp; They are also still showing within Server Admin Directory.</P><P>I would like to think that there is a way to remove these now-defunct registered connections but cannot seem to get rid of them.&nbsp; Does anyone know how to do this?</P><P>Thank you,</P><P>Greg</P><P>System Specs: ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.0; SQL Server 2016 (Windows)</P> Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:31:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/unregistering-enterprise-geodatabase-data-store/m-p/1198536#M33648 GregCarlino2 2022-08-02T14:31:57Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/unregistering-enterprise-geodatabase-data-store/m-p/1200041#M33685 <P>Update:</P><P>Per the Esri Helpdesk - the following directory contains a folder corresponding to each registered database:</P><P>C:\arcgisserver\config-store\data\enterpriseDatabases</P><P>Upon deleting each folder, the corresponding entry will be removed from within the 'Data Stores' page of Server Manager and Server Admin Directory.&nbsp; Of course, this presumes all preliminary steps to unregister and remove the related Data Store Items from Portal were taken, prior to deleting these folders.</P> Fri, 05 Aug 2022 20:07:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/unregistering-enterprise-geodatabase-data-store/m-p/1200041#M33685 GregCarlino2 2022-08-05T20:07:37Z