Software Deployment

Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know that I solved this issue and the script I used was as follows;

\\someserver\MsiExec.exe /X{3248F0A8-6813-11D6-A77B-00B0D0150140} /quiet

I ran this from a GPO which was called from a computer level in a startup script. I had to place the msiexec in a shared location on the network and then call the clsid from the local machine.
Worked like a champ and removed the particular JRE from 993 machines.
Thank You all for your help

How was JRE first installed to your domain computers?
If the uninstall failes you might want to turn on verbose logging on the computer(s) to get any hints on why this happens.

It was mistakenly pushed out during a patch vulnaribility sweep using a product called Shavlik HFNetchk.

Do you get any error message?
What did a verbose log tell you?

Can you manually uninstall JRE from the command line?
MsiExec.exe /X{3248F0A8-6813-11D6-A77B-00B0D0150140}

Hi,
I can run "MsiExec.exe /X{3248F0A8-6813-11D6-A77B-00B0D0150140} /quiet" from a command line and it uninstalls the JRE just fine as long as the user has administrative permissions which most of our users dont.
I will enable "verbose logging" on the machine and see what kind of data is returned.

I tested linking "MsiExec.exe /X{3248F0A8-6813-11D6-A77B-00B0D0150140} /quiet" to a GPO and could not get it to remove the JRE from a machine level.
Do you think I need to qualify the location for msiexec.exe as in cd windows\system32, MsiExec.exe /X{3248F0A8-6813-11D6-A77B-00B0D0150140} /quiet. Or place msiexec somewhere on a share so that it is available for the login script????

The script needs to be applied from a machine level so that system permissions will allow the removal of the JRE.

I put together the following vbscript which runs well but only allows one machine at a time to be uninstalled. The script uses psexec to elevate permissions.

Dim node
Dim objFileSys
Dim strDomain
Dim MACHINEGUID
Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002

Set fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ScriptDir = fso.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'prompts for varible information
'you can hard these if you like
strDomain=InputBox("Enter Domainname","Java 1.5.0_14 Removal","domainname",100,100)
Dim CmdToRun
CmdToRun="c:\Psexec.exe \\"&strComputer&" msiexec.exe /X {3248F0A8-6813-11D6-A77B-00B0D0150140} /quiet"
WshShell.Run(CmdToRun)

Would any of you know how to load a list of machines into a vbscript such as this to uninstall from a list of machines?
Thank You