Uninstall application X on all computers
Hi
Is there any way that i can find all computers that has application X on them, and then uninstall the application on all those computers?
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Since it's inhouse, do you know how to chat with the developers? Some developers provide an uninstall method. If they didn't provide that, you would need to chat with them to see what changes would need to be made to uninstall the app. This could include deleting files and making registry changes. If they didn't develop the uninstall with the app, then you would almost certainly have a multi-step PDQ Deploy package that would need to be created to do the uninstall. Do you have access to the developers of the app to see what can be done? There is no universal way to uninstall an application, particularly if that app was installed using an EXE.
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Hi Shawn
Thanks for the reply, the application has an unattended uninstall that i can type in at the command line and it cleanly uninstalls the application for me. I just cant see how i can automate it so i can use PDQ Inventory to find the apps, and then uninstall them. The only way i can see on how to do it now is get the list of PCs from PDQ Inventory, then go into PDQ Deploy and create a package that runs the uninstall command, and then deploy that to all the PCs.
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Hi Paul,
Just a question.
Why don't you just run the command line to uninstall the software without identifying the application?
Depending on the ratio of machines that have it maybe this will work?
For example, if you know out of 100 machines, approximately 80 machines should have it, then just work your way backwards.
Install on ALL machines, then do a comparison after the deployment.
Of course, this wouldn't work if you have no clue on how many machines have it and therefore, you would need to make a new collection in the inventory module with rules identifying what it is called in the "Add/Remove Programs" or "Programs and Features". Have you tried creating the collection yet? Are you having problems with this?
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