Ok, so a rookie follow up....how do I locate the GUIDs?
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Is their any way in which I can silently uninstall Visio using PSEXEC? If this is possible could someone PLEASE give me an example of the command or script I'd use to do this?
Thanks VERY much.
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this should work:
Visio Pro 2003:
psexec \\computer -u domain/Admin -p Password msiexec /x {90510409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0
Viso Viewer 2003: {90520409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0
Visio Viewer 2007: {95120000-0052-0409-0000-0
Not sure if it'd work for 2007, but here's the GUID:
Visio Pro 2007: {89405-707-1707292-63779}
If you're trying to uninstall Professional 2007 and that didn't work, try this:
psexec \\computer -u domain/Admin -p Password "C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/OFFICE12/Office Setup Controller/setup.exe /uninstall VISPRO /dll OSETUP.DLL"
>>Ok, so a rookie follow up....how do I locate the GUIDs?
First, determine what version you have. Then you can look it up on your computer by pulling the registry:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Wi
Then basically scroll down until you see the one that corresponds to Visio. That would be the GUID.
You could probably also look it up online.
open regedit
locate
hkey_local_machine\softwar
then just look through those sub-keys for the description Visio and find the value that says UninstallString or similar
you can either copy the guid from the actual keyname, or from this uninstallstring value.
You can use Ctrl+F in regedit as well to search for Visio, which I would do once you are on the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Wi
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by: CoyotesITPosted on 2008-12-29 at 07:35:34ID: 23256248
should be something like
psexec -u username -p password \\remotepc msiexec /qn /x{VISIO-GUID}