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167 VOTE
Status SUBMITTED
Categories Custom Apps Feature
Created by David Allen
Created on Feb 28, 2024

Configure uninstall command line for exe installers

When creating a Custom App from an exe installer, allow an input field to configure the uninstall command line.

Also, when creating an app using a MSI installer, I would like to specify a custom uninstall command line. For example, we have a security product that has tamper protection configured after it is installed and the traditional command line would fail to uninstall it. We would need to supply the encrypted password to the command line for the uninstall to succeed.

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    • Guest
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      Apr 22, 2025

      We'd really need this feature. We have some applications that need an answerfile (.iss) passed with the installation and uninstallation. The registry doesn't provide any silent uninstallation here and thus the uninstallation just failes all the time.

    • Frida Jansson
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      Apr 2, 2025

      Really need this feature. Some applications simply doesn't have the correct information in the uninstall string in the registry, even though they might support silent uninstalls. So it would be great to be able to modify the uninstall parameters in these cases. I will use Phils workaround as seen here in the comments in the meantime.

    • Andreas Zeller
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      Nov 26, 2024

      That would be quite nice, as quite a few of our costum packages wont work with the default uninstall behaivior.

    • Phil Baxter
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      Jun 10, 2024

      We're in a similar boat for one of our applications. The uninstall requires referencing an answer file which doesn't appears to be supported with custom apps. Our workaround is to modify the uninstall string in Intune but that isn't ideal.

    • Marios Andreou
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      Apr 30, 2024

      We also have a similar scenario where an app we use does not store the uninstall command in the registry, which is most likely causing issues when packaging from PMPC Cloud. Looking at the logs, the uninstall command is not specified and we have to go to Intune and manually add it.

      It would be ideal if we can at least review the uninstall command identified by PMPC Cloud, once the installer is uploaded, and then modify it if needed.

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    46 VOTE

    Allow ability to append paremeters to uninstaller

    Creating a custom app for Adobe Creative Cloud, and the UninstallString registry key does not contain the silent uninstall parameter (there is no silentuninstallstring reg key). I have seen this with several other apps, where the uninstall reg isn...
    Paul Baker 8 months ago in Custom Apps Feature 1 SUBMITTED