{"id":3164,"date":"2013-02-15T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiki.melberi.com\/uncategorized\/uninstall-the-vmware-snapshot-provider-manually-remove-vss-service-from-windows-2008-server-delete"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","slug":"uninstall-vmware-vss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/vmware\/uninstall-vmware-vss","title":{"rendered":"Uninstall the VMWare Snapshot Provider (VSS) Service from Windows Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><u><b>How to Uninstall the VMWare Snapshot Provider <\/b><\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If your server contains both VMware VSS Provider and the Symantec VSS Provider then you will get a warning message during the VM Backup process. To avoid that warning message you can remove the VMware VSS Provider.<br \/>\n1. Go to <b>All Programs -&gt; Administrative Tools -&gt; Component Services<\/b><br \/>\n2. In the Component Services go to <b>-&gt; Computers -&gt; My Computer -&gt; COM+ Applications<\/b><br \/>\n3. Right Click the <b>VMWare Snapshot Provider<\/b> and delete the service as shown in the below snapshot.<br \/>\n4. 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