Slent uninstallation of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
I have Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection installaed on WIN7 machine. I need to remove it silently (without UI). For that I picked up UninstallString from registry and executed it on command prompt as following:
"C:\Program FIles\Microsoft Security Client\Setup.exe" /X
After executing this command, an Uninstallation window appears. I tried with /qn and /silent parameters, but it won't work!
November 9th, 2011 4:36pm
Thanks for the prompt response.
I don't have configmgr. I have standalone remote client machine on which I need to send shell script to uninstall FEP silently (without UI)
November 9th, 2011 4:59pm
I just read the script really quick, so maybe I missed something, but it seams to do someting with /u /s
November 9th, 2011 5:16pm
Just did a quick test and "C:\Program FIles\Microsoft Security Client\Setup.exe" /x /u /s
Seams to work.
I looked in the script aswell and it copies the whole FEP installation to a temp directory and runs the uninstall from there, reason I don't know, but my guess is that if you run it from C:\program files\Microsoft Security Client\ the uninstall will still leave
a couple of files like setup.exe and so on because it cannot remove itself.
But it succesfully uninstalled the client.
regards,
jörgen
November 9th, 2011 5:36pm
Yes it works! Thanks a tone.
November 10th, 2011 8:37am
Works perfectly! Thanks a million, that saves me a lot of time!
September 19th, 2013 2:19pm