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Silent uninstall of central?

Could someone please point me to a current and working article on how to do an uninstall of Central please?

The batch files that show up on Google appear to be a year or so old and most of the uninstall strings just seem to whizz by so I presume there's something newer and better available?

Needs to be scriptable across hundreds of machines via GPO, let's assume tamper is off.

Preferably something that can cope with the utter joy that is Sophos when it simply says "The MSI terminated unexpectedly".

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0 Nick Cuddemi over 6 years ago

Open up PowerShell and type

Get-ChildItem HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*, HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* |

Get-ItemProperty| Select-Object DisplayName, UninstallString | Where-Object {$_.displayname-like "Sophos*"} | Out-file C:\Users\$Env:USERNAME\Desktop\SophosUninstall.txt

This will give you all the uninstall strings for Sophos currently on your computer and save them in a text file call SophosUninstall on your desktop.

You can use these in a script, most of them are MSI but the exe's might have a quiet parameter.

Could try /s /S /q /Q, one of those.
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0 Paul Hutchings over 6 years ago in reply to Nick Cuddemi

It seems to uninstall logged on as the literal "Administrator" account but won't if you're logged on as a domain account with local (not domain) Administrator permissions.
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0 Nick Cuddemi over 6 years ago in reply to Paul Hutchings

Hm weird, I haven't experienced that issue.

I don't have a problem uninstalling it even from control panel.
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0 Paul Hutchings over 6 years ago in reply to Nick Cuddemi

Anyone from Sophos please?

I found this but it's out of date: community.sophos.com/.../122126
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0 Gowtham Mani over 6 years ago

Hi Paul Hutchings,

The script can still be used to uninstall the client, what you are seeing is something different. As requested in your other thread please share the logs to check further.

Regards,

Gowtham Mani
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