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Top Tip! - How to silently uninstall a previous version of Workshare from all user's machines via an uninstall script

Top Tip by Andrew Beard

You must first know the exact version and build number of the Workshare product, because each one will have a different and unique MSI identifier key code.

  1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
  2. There will be a list of product codes, scroll down individually and lcoate the Workshare product to be removed (i.e. DeltaView, Protect or Workshare Professional).
  3. Double click on the "uninstallstring" field and you will see a path resembling "MsiExec.exe /I{F0D8B3F5-736D-4DEA-A80A-A7FD0F5B8073}
  4. Replace the code in your uninstall script with the code you have just copied from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall.
  5. Use that as below in the script:

          MsiExec.exe /x {F0D8B3F5-736D-4DEA-A80A-A7FD0F5B8073}

Include the rest of the script after this.

Note: The /x is the MSI parameter switch to uninstall a Windows product.

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