Here is an example of my adobe standard uninstall, written in VS2008 as a console application. As you can see we query the SCCM tables for a few values, the neat one is the unique ID which means any new versions of adobe and we dont need to change the installer with a hard coded product code string.


Module Module1
Sub Main()

Dim uniqueid As String = String.Empty


Dim compname As String = My.Computer.Name


Dim useraweekago As String = String.Empty


Dim fullusername As String = String.Empty


My.User.InitializeWithWindowsUser()


Dim username As String = Replace(My.User.Name, "yourdomain\", "")





Dim Application As String


Dim SCCMAllow As String





Application = "Adobe Standard"


SCCMAllow = "SCCM - Allow Adobe Standard"





Dim mail As New System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("123.123.123.123")


Dim address As New System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("donotreply@yourdomain.com")


Dim toAddress As New System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("youraddress@yourdomain.com")


Dim message As New System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(address, toAddress)


Dim strsubject As String


Dim strbody As String


strsubject = "SCCM Application Uninstall - " & Application & ""


message.IsBodyHtml = True


message.Subject = strsubject





Try


Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=glasms;" + "Initial Catalog=SMS_GLA;" + "User ID=******;" + "Password=*******;")


Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCommand


cmd.CommandTimeout = 60


cmd.Connection = conn


cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text


cmd.CommandText = "select full_user_name0 from user_disc where user_name0 = '" & username & "'"


conn.Open()


fullusername = (cmd.ExecuteScalar)


conn.Close()


Catch ex As Exception


System.Environment.Exit(1)


End Try








'first off because its adobe standard and lots of secretarys have it on desktops that can be used


'by visiting people, we are going to query the sms database to find out who was logged on 7 days


'ago. if the initialized user doesnt match we will abort the uninstall.





Try


Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=glasms;" + "Initial Catalog=SMS_GLA;" + "User ID=*****;" + "Password=*******;")


Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCommand


cmd.CommandTimeout = 60


cmd.Connection = conn


cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text


cmd.CommandText = "select replace(name00,'yourdomain\',') from network_login_profile_hist osd join system_data sys on sys.machineid = osd.machineid where osd.fullname00 is not null and lastlogon00 < (getdate() - 7) and sys.name0 = '" & compname & "' order by lastlogon00 desc"


conn.Open()


useraweekago = (cmd.ExecuteScalar)


conn.Close()


Catch ex As Exception


System.Environment.Exit(1)


End Try





'now lets make sure the two users match, also convert the strings to uppercase just incase


'the user logs on as Username then username





If useraweekago.ToUpper = username.ToUpper Then





Try


Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=glasms;" + "Initial Catalog=SMS_GLA;" + "User ID=******;" + "Password=*******;")


Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCommand


cmd.CommandTimeout = 60


cmd.Connection = conn


cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text


cmd.CommandText = "select isd.productcode00 from dbo.installed_software_data isd join system_data SYS on sys.machineID = ISD.machineID where arpdisplayname00 like '%adobe%standard%' and isd.productcode00 like '{%}' and name0 = '" & compname & "'"


conn.Open()


uniqueid = (cmd.ExecuteScalar)


conn.Close()


Catch ex As Exception


System.Environment.Exit(1)


End Try





'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'





Dim filename As String


Dim arguments As String


Dim processname As String


filename = "msiexec"


arguments = "/x " & uniqueid & " /qn /norestart"


processname = "acrobat"





'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------'








'in the unlikely event adobe standard is uninstalled before sccm executes this exe


'lets just do a check its still on the machine





Dim path As String = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\" & uniqueid & ""





If My.Computer.Registry.GetValue(path, "DisplayName", Nothing) Is Nothing Then


System.Environment.Exit(1)


Else


If Process.GetProcessesByName(processname).Length < 1 Then


'is closed








Dim client As New Process


client.StartInfo.FileName = filename


client.StartInfo.Arguments = arguments


client.Start()


client.WaitForExit(600000)





If client.HasExited = False Then


strbody = "<BR><font size=4 face=arial color=red><b>Uninstall Failed</font><BR><BR><font size=2 face=arial color=black>" & Application & " uninstall has failed for the following user on the following computer: <BR><BR>" & fullusername & "<BR>" & compname & "<BR><BR>REASON: Uninstall process ran for longer than 10 minutes</b></font>"


client.Kill()


client.WaitForExit()


message.Body = strbody


mail.Send(message)


System.Environment.Exit(1)


End If





If client.ExitCode = "0" Then


strbody = "<BR><font size=4 face=arial color=green><b>Uninstall Successful</font><BR><BR><font size=2 face=arial color=black>" & Application & " has been successfully uninstalled for the following user on the following computer: <BR><BR>" & fullusername & "<BR>" & compname & "<BR><BR>REASON: This was a result of the user not being in the " & SCCMAllow & " Group in Active Directory</b></font>"


message.Body = strbody


mail.Send(message)


System.Environment.Exit(0)


End If





If client.ExitCode <> "0" Then


strbody = "<BR><font size=4 face=arial color=red><b>Uninstall Failed</font><BR><BR><font size=2 face=arial color=black>" & Application & " has failed to uninstall for the following user on the following computer: <BR><BR>" & fullusername & "<BR>" & compname & "<BR><BR>REASON: Uninstall returned an error code of " & client.ExitCode & ".</b></font>"


message.Body = strbody


mail.Send(message)


System.Environment.Exit(1)


End If


Else


'is open


Dim strbody1 As String


strbody1 = "<BR><font size=4 face=arial color=red><b>Uninstall Failed</font><BR><BR><font size=2 face=arial color=black>Attempt to uninstall " & Application & " aborted for the following user on the following computer : <BR><BR>" & fullusername & "<BR>" & compname & "<BR><BR>REASON : The process " & processname & " was running</b></font>"


message.Body = strbody1


mail.Send(message)


System.Environment.Exit(1)


End If


End If


Else


Dim strbody2 As String


strbody2 = "<BR><font size=4 face=arial color=red><b>Uninstall Failed</font><BR><BR><font size=2 face=arial color=black>Attempt to uninstall " & Application & " aborted for the following user on the following computer : <BR><BR>" & fullusername & "<BR>" & compname & "<BR><BR>REASON : The current user (" & username & ") does not match the user (" & useraweekago & ") logged on a week ago.</b></font>"


message.Body = strbody2


mail.Send(message)


System.Environment.Exit(1)


End If


End Sub


End Module

Well I'm contracting for a Government agency.. need I say more?

Haha

- paul

pmp75,

I've just installed 6.02 and installed 7.08 over the top.

Version 6.02 has been removed and replaced by 7.08

I thought this was the case from when I developed a 7.08 package.


Just out of curiosity, why are people looking at 7.08 when it was replaced by 7.09 and now 8.0 is available?

Thanks,

Dunnpy

Thanks, the small scale tesitng I've done has this working fine..

- paul


ORIGINAL:  danr29

I think I got this script from oldapps.com (not sure-just know I didn't write it but I did modify it to include 3 legacy versions of acrobat).  I've used this in a custom action with the latest version of Reader (in the Execute Deferred seq) and it worked perfectly:

On error resume next
const HKLM = &H80000002

Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

sCmd1 = "C:\WINDOWS\ISUNINST.EXE -y -a" _
    & " -f""C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\NT\Uninst.isu"""
sCmd2 = "C:\WINDOWS\ISUNINST.EXE -y -a" _
    & " -f""C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat 4.0\NT\Uninst.isu"""   
sCmd3 = "C:\WINDOWS\UNINST.EXE -y -a" _
    & " -f""C:\Acrobat3\Reader\DeIsL1.isu"""           

If keyExists("\Software\Adobe\Adobe Reader\5.0\", HKLM) Then
    objShell.Run sCmd1
End If

If keyExists("\Software\Adobe\Adobe Reader\4.0\", HKLM) Then
      objShell.Run sCmd2
End if

If keyExists("\Software\Adobe\Adobe Reader 3.1\", HKLM) Then
      objShell.Run sCmd3
End If

I've done some testing and 7.0.8 will only replace versions newer than 7 Anything older than that it will just install it next to it, so you will have 2 or more versions installed.

So, we're going to try getting a script to run before the install through SMS

- paul

I think I got this script from oldapps.com (not sure-just know I didn't write it but I did modify it to include 3 legacy versions of acrobat).  I've used this in a custom action with the latest version of Reader (in the Execute Deferred seq) and it worked perfectly:

On error resume next
const HKLM = &H80000002

Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

sCmd1 = "C:\WINDOWS\ISUNINST.EXE -y -a" _
    & " -f""C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\NT\Uninst.isu"""
sCmd2 = "C:\WINDOWS\ISUNINST.EXE -y -a" _
    & " -f""C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat 4.0\NT\Uninst.isu"""   
sCmd3 = "C:\WINDOWS\UNINST.EXE -y -a" _
    & " -f""C:\Acrobat3\Reader\DeIsL1.isu"""           

If keyExists("\Software\Adobe\Adobe Reader\5.0\", HKLM) Then
    objShell.Run sCmd1
End If

If keyExists("\Software\Adobe\Adobe Reader\4.0\", HKLM) Then
      objShell.Run sCmd2
End if

If keyExists("\Software\Adobe\Adobe Reader 3.1\", HKLM) Then
      objShell.Run sCmd3
End If

Paul,

I'm quite sure that 7.08 will go over (replace) any versions of Adobe Reader from 6.0.

This only leaves probably 4 & 5 to remove.

If you download the old versions (if you don't have them) from www.oldapps.com and check out the uninstall commands - I think they may be similar/same for all previous versions.

If you run these uninstalls as custom actions in your MST you should be able to remove any versions that Adobe Reader can't handle itself.

Hope this helps,

Dunnpy