Removal of application based on wildcard name?

The Toolkit General Discussion
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I’m looking to remove TeamViewer from all computers and was wondering if I could just use a wildcard like Teamviewer in the uninstall command to remove any instance detected?
Otherwise I’m running all of these:

Remove-MSIApplications -Name ‘TeamViewer 11 Host (MSI Wrapper)’
Remove-MSIApplications -Name ‘TeamViewer 11’
Remove-MSIApplications -Name ‘TeamViewer 11 Host’
Remove-MSIApplications -Name ‘TeamViewer Host’

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Remove-MSIApplications uses a wildcard search by default unless you use the ‘-exact’ switch. So in your example you would only need to use the command below rather than all the ones you listed:

Remove-MSIApplications -Name ‘TeamViewer’

Note that you need to be careful with Remove-MSIApplications as it can easily remove applications you want to keep if you aren’t careful with your search terms.

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thanks apparently the msi installed application has no msi installation string. In the registry it is msiexec /i{thecode} /qn.
But /i is for install so I’m not sure why it would have that as an uninstall command? Needless to stay the command doesn’t work for uninstalling.
I had to manually find the exe in the application path and determine the uninstall parameter and was able to incorporate that into the uninstall script