Retractsolution: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09
Operation name: Retractsolution
Description
Retracts the specified solution’s deployment. The retractsolution operation removes files from the front-end Web server. The deletesolution operation deletes the solution package in the solution store of the configuration, and should only be called after solution packages have been retracted.
Syntax
stsadm -o retractsolution
**-name \<solution name\>**
**\[-url\] \<URL name\>**
**\[-allcontenturls\]**
**\[-time\] \<time to remove\>**
**\[-immediate\]**
**\[-local\]**
**\[-lcid\] \<language\>**
Parameters
Parameter |
Value |
Required? |
Description |
name |
A valid name of the solution in the solution store, such as “SampleSolution.wsp” |
Yes |
Enables the administrator to specify the name of a solution inside of the solution store. |
url |
A valid URL, such as http://server_name |
No |
URL location of a virtual server |
allcontenturls |
<none> |
No |
Equivalent to deploying the package to all nonadministrative virtual servers that are in the farm. |
time |
A valid date:time format that is culture-specific to the administrative language, such as “2/16/2007 12:15:12” |
The -time parameter is not required if either the immediate or local parameter is specified. Otherwise, the -time parameter is required. |
Enables the administrator to schedule the time that the deployment should occur. Time requires that a user use a time format acceptable to the DateTime.Parse method. If the date time does not parse correctly, the following error message is displayed: "‘<time user entered>’ is not a valid time format. Deployment was not initiated." |
immediate |
<none> |
No |
Causes the deployment to occur immediately after the command is executed. |
local |
<none> |
The -local parameter is not required if either the immediate or time parameter is specified. Otherwise, the -local parameter is required. |
Deploys the solution synchronously on the local computer only. The timer service is not used. A developer must specify the -immediate, -local, or -time parameter. If one of these is not specified, the following error message is displayed: "Deployment type was not specified. You must specify a deployment to just this server (-local), to all servers in the farm (-immediate), or a delayed deployment to all servers in the farm (-time)." |
lcid |
A valid locale ID, such as "1033" for English |
No |
Language locale ID of the solution to be retracted |