Intune uninstall applications

Question

Hi,

Hyrbid environment with MDM Intune.

I am wondering what is the best way to uninstall an application. We have several applications installed on machines that are not deployed from Intune, but have been manually installed over the years. Now we would like to remove X number of applications from X number of machines.

Take for example Sonicwall Netextender. We have 100 machines with this application, and they have different versions, so that means different locations within registry. What I would like, is a script that would search within add/and remove programs within Control Panel, and say something like, if the application name = SonicWall then silent uninstall and postpone reboot if that is necessary.

I am open for other suggestions, but not possible to add any extra cost, like introducing Microsoft Intune Enterprise App Management.

What do you do ?

Thanks for any reply.

/R

Andreas

Answer 1

@Andreas, Thanks for posting in Q&A.

In General, Intune mainly focus on the app which are deployed via Intune. For the app which are not deployed via Intune, you can check to see if it can be removed via PowerShell script. Based as I know, some apps can also be uninstalled via Win32. You can check if the app has silently uninstalled command. If yes, then you can try to deploy the package via Intune win32 and assign the user or device group under uninstall assignment to see if the app can be uninstalled.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/apps-win32-add#step-7-assignments

Or you can create a PowerShell and upload it into Intune to uninstall apps.

Here are content of script to uninstall Sonicwall Netextender you can refer.

#Restart Process using PowerShell 64-bit

If ($ENV:PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 -eq "AMD64") {

Try {

&"$ENV:WINDIR\SysNative\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\PowerShell.exe" -File $PSCOMMANDPATH

}

Catch {

Throw "Failed to start $PSCOMMANDPATH"

}

Exit

}

#Uninstall Sonicwall NetExtender

Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\SonicWall\SSL-VPN\NetExtender\uninst.exe" /S

Start-Process Msiexec.exe -wait -ArgumentList /'x {EF06A6A8-6B81-4A09-8223-789953972FFF} REBOOT=ReallySuppress /qn'

#Remove Sonicwall NetExtender Profiles

Remove-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Sonicwall" /s

Non-official, just for reference.

Here is a link about how to deploy PowerShell script in Intune.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/intune-management-extension

Hope the above information can help.

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