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Sccm: Mass rollout new Firefox
Hi,
Id like to deploy latest Firefox via sccm (viz App-v or local install).
Now lots of users have installed Firefox manually and I want to uninstall those first.
Also I want to make sure that of issues occur, deploy can be halted, rolled back.
There are lots of options of install: supersede with pr without uninstall, phase deploy etc.
Not sure what to use. Also: how can I make sure ALL old versions are uninstalled before.I do the deploy?
Please advise.
Id like to deploy latest Firefox via sccm (viz App-v or local install).
Now lots of users have installed Firefox manually and I want to uninstall those first.
Also I want to make sure that of issues occur, deploy can be halted, rolled back.
There are lots of options of install: supersede with pr without uninstall, phase deploy etc.
Not sure what to use. Also: how can I make sure ALL old versions are uninstalled before.I do the deploy?
Please advise.
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Not sure if the uninstall search will find a user installation.
Firefox 64 bit should be able to run all available plug-ins,
There is no general approach for this kind of problem. So I'm afraid it will be research and development most of the time.
Firefox 64 bit should be able to run all available plug-ins,
There is no general approach for this kind of problem. So I'm afraid it will be research and development most of the time.
or create a task seqence and add>runcommand line
wmic product where "name like '%firefox%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive
and then add>application
wmic product where "name like '%firefox%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive
and then add>application
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???
Why on earth would you run a tasksequence for that?
Why on earth would you run a tasksequence for that?
you can include same command line inside of application as well. As you might have application already created, I referred to TS so that you dont have to recreate the whole application
There is no requirement to use a task sequence.
Just add the uninstall commands before the installation script.
Just add the uninstall commands before the installation script.
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Why not approach like this
https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/3453-uninstall-string-search
Get-ChildItem -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\W
Maybe combined with your approach.
I d use psadt instead of doing kill magic and stuff myself.
Not sure 64 or 32 bit, don't know if Firefox plugins all need 33 bit Firefox.
I have the sccm report already, that was the reason to initiate the upgrade.
I m looking for a general/automated upgrade approach since we will need to do same for other software too.
Can t dive into each software item in depth, analyze it. We replace older manual installs by new versions in bulk, that s the message.