Uninstall Office 2007 - remotely

Did u try this

http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2011/04/06/how-to-perform-an-uninstall-upgrade-to-office-2010.aspx



Ded9

OK but as for the Product ID will that be the same for all the Office Products installed?  Meaning can I look for the Product ID on one machine and use it for all of them?

You can get the product id from setup.xml file.



Ded9

I can't find the product ID setup.xml for office do you know where it is?

If you are not able to locate the setup.xml ...copy it from this location

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\Groove.en-us\

The Setup.xml file is located in the core product folder on the network installation point. In Setup.xml, [ProductID] is equal to the value of the Id attribute of the Setup element. For example:

Might be hidden.

e.g
\\server\share\Office14\ProPlus.WW\setup.xml




Ded9

Nothing in there how about the registry product ID?

Wait that file was for 2010 ..


Ded9

ok that looked kind of strange when I opened it.

You can get it from here

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179070%28v=office.12%29.aspx

check for your version of office.


Ded9

90120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE  Got it thanks.  I'll see if I can make it work.  I'll let you know thanks!

I discovered WMIC and I'm trying to use PSExec to run  - you got me on the correct path.. Thax.

Just a quick question on this as well,

Are you installing a new version of Office on these machines? If so, you may not need to uninstall because the new version will uninstall it for you.

Some of them we are however, the reason why I have to remove it is we have something called a DSM from CA which installs software, inventory's the machines and allows for remote access (when it works)  We have a new package for office 2010 but we installed Office 2007 by disk.  The DSM will not remove the Office Version (the one we installed by hand) to update/upgrade to 2010.  So I have to remove it.

Here's how I got it to work.

@echo off
set /p var= Enter the computer txt name:
set /p var2= Enter the Product Name:



psexec \\@%var% -s -i cmd /c wmic product where vendor="@%var2%" call uninstall

Good one :)


Ded9

small error no @before the %var% unless you are using it on multiple computers and no @ before the Var2 either.  Sorry.

OK this is the correct one.  Sorry.

@echo off
set /p var= Enter the computer txt name:
set /p var2= Enter the Product Name:



psexec \\%var% -s -i cmd /c wmic product where name="%var2%" call uninstall

this worked thanks. but so did this
@echo off
set /p var= Enter the computer txt name:
set /p var2= Enter the Product Name:



psexec \\%var% -s -i cmd /c wmic product where name="%var2%" call uninstall