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elezioni e attribuzioni del tratĪ powershell script to update Symantec Endpoint Protection.
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#Removing symantec endpoint protection install#
If the script detects that the version of SEP you are trying to install matches the version currently installed it will end the script with a message stating the client is up to date. I did not put a shutdown or reboot command in this because the SEP uninstall period is unpredictable and if you reboot before it finishes then there may be complications with the installation of the new version. After removing the registry entries which would force user input the script creates a registry entry in RunOnce for the updated binary that you have.
#Removing symantec endpoint protection password#
It will then check the version number on Line 3 and if it doesn't match it will proceed to stop the SEP client and remove the uninstall password registry entries. This script will check the registry for the current version of SEP you are running. This powershell script will update the version of Symantec Endpoint Protection provided you have a binary for the new version. If nothing happens, download the GitHub extension for Visual Studio and try again.
If nothing happens, download Xcode and try again. If nothing happens, download GitHub Desktop and try again. The good thing about this is the end users have no idea what just happened and more importantly they had no interruption to their work.GitHub is home to over 40 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. So to uninstall Symantec's antivirus program all I had to do was type the following line from a command prompt. The particular tool I used is called psexec and is used for remotely running a command on a machine. They are called PSTools and are freely downloaded from the Microsoft web site. This is done by a great set of tools that were originally done by Sysinternals which have since been bought out by Microsoft. Finally the last thing we need to do is remotely execute the msiexec program. That takes care of the password asking problem. First, to fix the password issue, we can start up regedit and from the file menu connect via the network to the remote machines registry. This can all be fixed from the comfort of our well worn chair. Actually it should require a password to be uninstalled or you haven't done your job properly. Secondly the corporate edition of Symantec's antivirus can require a password to be uninstalled.
This is not the end of it though.įirst the command is done locally so you still have to be sitting in front of the computer and have the end user breathing down your neck. Nothing would upset an end user more than having the computer reboot on them when they were just about to save a presentation that they worked on for four hours. The actual line needed with all of the proper arguments is. What I first needed to do is find out how it manually uninstalls.įor version Just typing that line in a console starts the removal process just as if you called it from add and remove programs. This is where I started talking to my good friend google again and after several conversations we worked out a method of remotely and silently uninstalling those wayward antivirus program so I could install again remotely those updated versions and have everything working hunky dory again. Unfortunately while I could install there was no way to remotely uninstall. This means that there were several computers floating around using an older version of the antivirus program and they weren't updating to the server. The corporate edition of Symantec's antivirus suite version That is to say it goes through the motions and talks the talk but it just didn't walk the walk. I also wanted to do this removal silently to both allow the end users to continue working undisturbed and as an added bonus I don't have to talk to them and have them put me off because they are just too busy at that moment. I wanted to remove the antivirus programs remotely because the computers are too far away and my chair is rather comfortable having been moulded to my ample behind.
#Removing symantec endpoint protection how to#
This is how to remotely and silently remove Symantec's Antivirus Corporate Edition from Windows computers.
Getting away from the Linux game a bit I thought I would share a gem from my Windows side of things. Symantec endpoint protection powershell script
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