Silently uninstall WSS Agent (WSSA)
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Silently uninstall WSS Agent (WSSA)

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Article ID: 167037

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Products

Web Security Service - WSS

Issue/Introduction

How do I SILENTLY uninstall the WSS Agent (WSSA)?

 

Environment

This uninstall command is for: 

  • Unified Agent (UA) client v4.4 (or later), and all versions of the WSS Agent (WSSA)

 

Resolution

Obtain the GUID for Unified Agent current version

  1. Open CMD as administrator
  2. Run the following command
C:\>wmic product get | findstr "Unified Agent" > InstalledPrograms.txt
  1. The file InstalledPrograms.txt should be saved under the folder location the command was run from. In this case, it is the C:\ drive.
  2. The output of the this file is:
Unified Agent {58660032-15F8-4B48-848F-63D31541305C}20190402 C:\Program Files\Blue Coat Systems\Unified Agent\ 5 1033
C:\Windows\Installer\693b051a.msi  Unified Agent C:\Windows\Installer\693b051a.msi{19D95A3E-D7A2-4213-BE8A-D4F08D43FB47}
UnifiedAgentInstaller64-4.10.3.225009.msi Blue Coat Systems 4.10.3.225009  

Command line to uninstall UA without a token:

MsiExec.exe /X {58660032-15F8-4B48-848F-63D31541305C} /quiet

Command line to uninstall UA with uninstall TOKEN: 

MsiExec.exe /X {58660032-15F8-4B48-848F-63D31541305C} /quiet UNINSTALL_TOKEN=password