Using Intune to uninstall user-installed software.

Question

Hello Microsoft Gurus.

Scenario: Company has cloud-managed laptops using Intune. A third party agent runs on all computers and reports vulnerabilities on each machine that needs to be patched. All users only have standard access on their laptop and cannot do administrative tasks. Some users have downloaded and installed Chrome and or Firefox. Because they are not administrators, these browsers have been installed to the users' AppData folder in their local profile. The vulnerability scanner reports these browsers when they become out of date and the end users are not updating the browsers.

Question: How would you utilize intune to remove and block these applications?

Answer 1

@EpicPenguin Thanks for posting in our Q&A.

From your description, did you mean that these apps are installed manually, not deployed via intune? If yes, there is no direct method to uninstall them via intune.

Or it is suggested to try to uninstall these apps via Powershell scripts. We can deploy scripts via intune.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/intune-management-extension

Hope it will help.

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