Has anyone uninstalled this product using PSADT? I tried and it’s continually failing due to timeout. When I ran through an uninstall manually from either ARP or using msiexec /x…, I get a few dialogs, one of which is a yes/no prompt. I think that might be the one holding the script up and causing the timeout. How are things like that handled? Silent installs only account for ‘Ok’ prompts, right?
I might have it and I do know that I need patience as this uninstall takes quite a while. If I stop process on the associated services, I only get the one yes/no prompt. I’ll try again with /quiet and see if it gets through. And like I said, I need to be patient… Patience is something I lack after 40+ years working in this field. The faster and more powerful machines get, the more they get loaded with crap that slows them down. (Just my perspective).
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Unsure what your PSADT uninstall command line looks like, but if it is being run (uninstalled) using the system account, you will not (as a normal user) see any messages as they would only be shown in the System context.
The solution for this is to use the ServiceUI.exe application (part of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or MDT), as it allows you to bring any dialogs shown in the System context into the users context.
I use Intune to do all my software installs / uninstalls and where I use PSADT I always include the ServiceUI.exe in the root of my intunewin file, so it can be used with the install / uninstall
An example PSADT uninstall command using ServiceUI.exe:
ServiceUI.exe -Process:explorer.exe Deploy-Application.exe -DeploymentType "Uninstall"
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