Thanks Tim... No, stupid me, I was expecting this online documentation to be complete:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490936.aspx I should have thought to type "msiexec /?". Do you know of any complete online docs? I'm wondering about multiple /X on the same command line, and an errorlevel or some way to determine that a restart is needed. I guess I can probably look in the registry somewhere to see if something has been established to happen on reboot. Thanks! Carl From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted uninstalls - MSIEXEC While I haven't tested it on an uninstall, MsiExec V 3.01.4001.5512 has a /norestart option. I know that it works on installs. Have you tried that? .Tim From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Scripted uninstalls - MSIEXEC I'm writing a script to remove certain unwanted software, some of which installs with MSIEXEC. I want to uninstall silently without user involvement. So my script goes out and gets the UninstallString from the registry and I've already found that sometimes these specify /X and other times they specify /I, so I'm replacing /I with /X and adding /Q. That all works fine, but... If a reboot is required, the workstation reboots immediately. I want the reboot to be postponed until I've uninstalled all things that need to be uninstalled and I'm not seeing any command line switch for MSIEXEC to skip the reboot after a quiet uninstall. Anything undocumented out there? Or some alternative means of batch-uninstalling multiple programs with postponed reboot? Or maybe I don't even need to worry about a reboot because the script runs as a machine startup script? I'm still testing interactively. Thanks, Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
