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Uninstall by product name

Peter G

Updated February 03, 2020 15:02

Hi,

Is there any way for a command to query the uninstall string of a particular product name? For example, I need to uninstall a program from 100 machines called "My Software" which over the years the developer has created the application with different MSI guids.

I'd like to tell Deploy/Inventory to:

- Query uninstall string for "My Software"
- Run Uninstall based on retrieved string on each machine

Is this possible?

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1 comment

Colby Bouma
February 03, 2020 23:50 (Edited February 04, 2020 20:31)
As long as the application you're trying to uninstall is an MSI (which it sounds like it is), you can use my PowerShell script: https://github.com/Colby-PDQ/Uninstall-Packages/blob/master/Scripts/Uninstall-MSI-By-Name.ps1
```
.\Uninstall-MSI-By-Name.ps1 -ApplicationName "My Software" -ApplicationPublisher "My Publisher"
```
Here's a package that uses this script: https://github.com/Colby-PDQ/Uninstall-Packages/blob/master/Packages/Uninstall%20Adobe%20Flash%20Player%20ActiveX.xml
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