Hi Karl,
There's a few ways you can do it. The K1000's robust Scripting engine could help push out a script to uninstall it. You could even upload a .bat file with the uninstall command in it as run it like a managed installation. I personally prefer to script the uninstall in with the install of the new version. So it will first check for the old version, uninstall it if it finds it, and then installs the new software. I actually made a little workflow diagram to explain it: http://i.imgur.com/VcqnTxq.png?1
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Before I give you the code for that workflow, let me also mention that if you go into your K1000 -> Inventory -> Software, You can search for the particular acrobat install it will report how many computers it's installed on so you know you grabbed the right one, click on it, and often times you'll get to see the Product Un-Install Command right there on the software page. Though I normally tweak it a bit when you see MSIEXEC /I and the product code, I change it to MSIEXEC /qn /X and the product code. To uninstall it with no interaction.
So! I normally compile all the files I need into a working folder, add an install.bat, then zip it up and upload it into KACE. When it asks me what to run in the distribution I tell it Install.bat, not to prepend MSIEXEC and it's all good. That workflow code I mentioned:
::New Software Check
REG QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall{<Product Key for New Software>}
IF %errorlevel%0 goto :END
) ELSE (
if %errorlevel%1 goto :OLDCHECK
)
:OLDCHECK
::OLD VERSION CHECK
REG QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall{<REGKEY>}
if %errorlevel%0 goto :UNINSTALL
Premiere pro montage. ) ELSE (
if %errorlevel%1 goto :INSTALL Windows xbox live.
)
:UNINSTALL
::OLD VERSION UNINSTALL
MsiExec /qn /X{<REGKEY>} (Or whatever the uninstall code is)
:INSTALL
<Install Line for new Software>
:END
Here's a little bonus I found in my notes, a quick way to check for what OS version the machine running the script is using, nice if you need to do something different between 32bit and 64bit installs and you don't want to make two scripts. Adobe premiere pro 2018 update.
set ProgFiles86Root=%ProgramFiles(x86)%
IF NOT '%ProgFiles86Root%'' (
<Place whatever you want to do in 64bit here, xcopy, install, whatever>
) ELSE (
<Place whatever you want to do in 32bit here, xcopy, install, whatever>
)
I hope this helped. Let me know if you have any questions.
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