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Novell Zenwork 10 Uninstall

I am looking to automatically remove Novell ZenWork clients previous to 10.0.3.2 as we cannot directly upgrade to the newer versions. We are removing this from 300 machines.

I have been trying to call the uninstaller with GPO on Startup/Shutdown/Logon/Log Off. But the installer just bombs out. We have been provided with an uninstall script from our support company, however this just disables ZEN by removing the services and changing the GINA back to MSGINA.

This wont allow us to reinstall the newer client, but we can if we use the uninstaller.

Has anyone else found a solution to this?
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Well this may not be via a GPO the way you want but it should work. If you can find the uninstall string for the program in the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
     CurrentVersion\Uninstall

What you can do assuming you have domain admin rights is to create a script and use PSEXEC to silenty unintall the software from the peoples machines.

The command line would be something like psexec \\computername MsiExec.exe /I{programstring} /quiet /norestart
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