Best Practices to Uninstall SCCM 2012 Server and Client Agents?

Hello,

I've to uninstall an existing SCCM 2012 installation with all of installed client agents. In SCOM, I'm able to uninstall all agents from console and removed roles one by one. But where as in SCCM, there is no option to remotely uninstall client agents.

Can anyone let me know the best practice to uninstall SCCM 2012 server roles and client agents? Any further help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

December 17th, 2012 9:13pm

Hi,

For the clients, use a script that executes "C:\windows\CCMsetup\ccmsetup.exe /uninstall" either a GPO startup skript or something like that, you could do it with SCCM as well but as you want to uninstall it I would use Another method.

For the Site server, remove as many roles as you can in the ConfigMgr console, after that launch setup from the start menu under System Center 2012\Configuration Manager\Configuration Manager Setup. there you can uninstall the whole site.

After that I would cleanup the AD as well by deleting the System Management Container under the System Container.

Regards,
Jrgen 

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December 17th, 2012 9:24pm

You can simple advertise a package/program with the command line to do the client uninstall.  Something like 'ccmsetup.exe /uninstall' with a directory of "%windir%\ccmsetup\"

 

For more information, see this TechNet article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712288.aspx#BKMK_UninstalClient

 

I hope that helps!

 

Nash

December 17th, 2012 9:27pm

Hi,

For the clients, use a script that executes "C:\windows\CCMsetup\ccmsetup.exe /uninstall" either a GPO startup skript or something like that, you could do it with SCCM as well but as you want to uninstall it I would use Another method.

For the Site server, remove as many roles as you can in the ConfigMgr console, after that launch setup from the start menu under System Center 2012\Configuration Manager\Configuration Manager Setup. there you can uninstall the whole site.

After that I would cleanup the AD as well by deleting the System Management Container under the System Container.

Regards,
Jrgen

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December 18th, 2012 1:19am

Not sure if this is still relevant but in my rollout, I only removed the server roles and built a new SCCM 2012 SP1 infrastructure.

To remediate the clients, I created a new GPO for Client Assignment, imported the Configuration Manager Reassignment Template and set the new site code. Once my systems were assigned to my new site I used the Automatic Client upgrade over a 30 day period to upgrade my clients to the latest version. This enabled me to get back up and running a lot sooner.

April 17th, 2013 1:27pm

can you please give me more information.I need to uninstall sccm2012 clients from all computers joind to domain
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