Hi, I would like to uninstall an application from several PC's. I found the
following
script and it works great on the local PC, but I don't know how to add in a
'foreach', collection of PC names, etc. so it will run on the rest of the
PC's. Can anyone assist? Thanks!


$product = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object {
$_.Name -like "Avaya PDS Agent"
}

$product.Uninstall()

On Dec 1, 9:23*am, mmccormick <mmccorm...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi, I would like to uninstall an application from several PC's. I found the
> following
> script and it works great on the local PC, but I don't know how to add ina
> 'foreach', collection of PC names, etc. so it will run on the rest of the
> PC's. Can anyone assist? Thanks!
>
> $product = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object {
> $_.Name -like "Avaya PDS Agent"
>
> }
>
> $product.Uninstall()

Something like this should work to cycle through the computers, but
keep in mind that many uninstallers require user interaction:

foreach ($computer in $computers) {
$product = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -ComputerName
$computer |
Where-Object {$_.Name -like "Avaya PDS Agent"}
$product.Uninstall()
}

I would use -filter to only return back the exact program. This is much faster
than using where-object{} to filter

NOTE: win32_product only returns products installed using the Windows Installer
and is not installed by default on Windows 2000 or 2003 and only returns
a limited amount of info on XP. See here for more info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...78(VS.85).aspx


Brandon Shell
---------------
Blog: http://www.bsonposh.com/
PSH Scripts Project: www.codeplex.com/psobject

M> win32_product
M>

Hi,

This request looks is a bit simular to a script i use, i modified it
slightly;
A Script that reads a text file with computernames, tests if a computer is
"pingable", tries to uninstall the software. Log all results per computer to
a text file

-- cut -----

function Remove-Apllication ($computer) {
BEGIN {}
PROCESS
{
$results = gwmi -query "SELECT * FROM Win32_PingStatus WHERE Address =
'$computer'"
if ($results.StatusCode -eq 0)
{
$ResultWMIQuery = Get-WMIObject -computerName $computer -query "select *
from win32_Product where name='Avaya PDS Agent'"
if ($ResultWMIQuery -ne $null)
{
$ResultWMIQuery.Uninstall()
Write-Output "$computer Product uninstalled" | out-file
"c:\Temp\ScriptOutPut.txt" -Append
} else {
Write-Output "$computer skipped (Product Not found)" | out-file
"c:\Temp\ScriptOutPut.txt" -Append
}
} else {
Write-Output "$computer skipped not Pingable" | out-file
"c:\Temp\ScriptOutPut.txt" -Append
}
}
END {}
}

gc c:\temp\computers.txt | %{Remove-Apllication $_}

--- cut ----

NOT FULLY TESTED

Sander Klaassen


"mmccormick" <mmccormick@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6CFFFDC8-1270-4DDE-BDAC-DED14CD5F86C@xxxxxx

> Hi, I would like to uninstall an application from several PC's. I found
> the
> following
> script and it works great on the local PC, but I don't know how to add in
> a
> 'foreach', collection of PC names, etc. so it will run on the rest of the
> PC's. Can anyone assist? Thanks!
>
>
> $product = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object {
> $_.Name -like "Avaya PDS Agent"
> }
>
> $product.Uninstall()

Thank you very much for all the great info everyone. I went with Marco Shaw's
advice and ran it this way:

$comps="serverA","serverB"

foreach($comp in $comps){
$prod=gwmi -computer $comp win32_product -filter "name = 'Avaya PDS
Agent'"
$prod.uninstall()
}
It ran like a champ! Thanks Marco and everyone for all your help!



"mmccormick" wrote:

> Hi, I would like to uninstall an application from several PC's. I found the
> following
> script and it works great on the local PC, but I don't know how to add in a
> 'foreach', collection of PC names, etc. so it will run on the rest of the
> PC's. Can anyone assist? Thanks!
>
>
> $product = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object {
> $_.Name -like "Avaya PDS Agent"
> }
>
> $product.Uninstall()