Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall bundle by name ?

[<Kei...@st...>]

Hi,

What we did is build a front end that builds an "uninstall message" when the package is built (again by the front end, but you could use a build script or something maybe) and uses our install-and-monitor software to parse it when it arrives. You'd need SCCM or Afaria or other tools like that to make use of this, in all likelihood. (Maybe Task Scheduler and some Powershell would be sufficient.)


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-----Original Message-----
From: rob...@ag... [mailto:rob...@ag...] 
Sent: September-04-13 6:57 PM
To: wix...@li...
Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall bundle by name ?

Hi all - I've managed to upgrade some of our installs to Wix 3.7 with the burn bootstrapper, hooray !

One thing I haven't quite anticipated is this: after our automated build we need to push a newly-built installer to a test machine for an automated smoke/sanity test.  First we need to uninstall the old build and install the new one (silently, can't just use control panel).  I know it's possible to run the old Setup.exe with the "/quiet /uninstall" command-line params, but is that the only way ?

With MSI's we could run "msiexec /x {product ID}" to do the uninstall.  Is there some way to silently run the uninstall by product name or some other ID which doesn't change from build to build ?  It would be nice not to have to keep the old bundle around for the uninstall.

Thanks for any info !
-Rob

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