Situation change. I have no idea why it started to work after a weekend doing nothing.
It just does what is expected. But there is a new thing I noticed, hence the subject change. Although I think it is more of a glitch and less of a bug, should you encounter it maybe you remember this I had install and uninstall deployments and while install always worked fine, the uninstall for some apps refused to do so. Checking in monitoring/deployments I noticed that there was a conflict message, install and uninstall at the same time, which of course would not work. But, there was no way the client was at the same time in both collections. The install one was even empty. Once I've deleted the whole deployment, suddenly uninstall worked. Still, there wasn't an active install before, at least in the console. 2nd test: I've added the client to a install collection, update policy, removed it again, update policy. Voila, now that conflict was gone. Those clients somehow still had the policy for both and missed that it was removed from install. Adding and removing it, updated this and the clients picked it up. Should you ever notice an uninstall not working, maybe you have the same problem. Check monitoring for conflicts. Not enough for a MS call yet, maybe another time. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Janus Sent: Montag, 16. September 2013 09:34 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] Weird App Uninstall behavior There ares no user deployments, only machines in this case. Let me put it like that: First there is a deployment for an app with 2 dependencies, installing ok. 1. Install: Client added to collection. App1 installs App2 and App3 2. Uninstall: Client is removed from the install collection and added to uninstall. Three separate deployments for App1, 2 and 3 Only 1 is actually uninstalled, 2 and 3 don't do anything. Can someone try that? -R From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Hemsell Sent: Montag, 16. September 2013 07:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Weird App Uninstall behavior if a deployment tells it to keep it installed by an ad to a user you cannot remove it with an ad to the machine. I really had a hard time understanding your question though. On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Roland Janus <[email protected]> wrote: I'm trying to make some sense into that: It is know that an application with dependencies installs fine and that an uninstall of that app would just ignore them and keep them installed. Also there is no choice to have an uninstall action in a task sequence. Big gap I'd like to have fixed by MS, but I've tried to work around this by doing: Pre-req: - Collection with a client - A required deployment for that app with dependencies for two other apps. Those 3 apps install fine. Now: - Create an uninstall collection - Create three required deployments o One for the main app (the one having the dependencies). o And two others for the other two applications on the same collection. They are only deployed through the dependency. - Move the client from the install to the uninstall collection. The main app is uninstalled (ignoring the dependencies), but since I have uninstalls for the two others, they should be uninstalled also, there is nothing to keep them enforced I think. They are not. Nothing happens, CM (SP1 CU2) just completely ignores two required uninstall deployments of installed apps. And the detection rules are correct, but it's not doing anything. Can someone try to replicate this please or has an explanation? -Roland
