CommodoreS Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 A few years back I deployed the Office Google Chrome MSI 31.0.1650.57 GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.MSI and it deployed fine through GPO and imported Googles Chrome GPO to manage Proxy settings etc through GPO. A while back I went to update to the latest MSI, telling the GPO to Uninstall From All Machines for the old MSI file and then added the MSI file for the latest version. This did not work and gave an error regarding Chrome still being installed, so as a quick fix I remove the new MSI and redeployed the old version again. I am now finding that the old version 31.0.1650.57 is installed on the machines and working, but control panel is not showing Google Chrome as being installed, and trying to uninstall using the MSI displays the error you can only uninstall products that are installed. Ideally I need some kind of network MSI to clean any traces of the old version of Google Chrome, so I can deploy the new version - as it does not seem to uninstall cleanly using the official MSI. Has anyone else had this problem before, and if so I'd be interested to know how it was resolved.
free780 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 The MSI just runs a exe I think its the same MSI product code which will cause fun and games. Also if you leave the auto updates on I don't know if chrome will uninstall properly.
CommodoreS Posted February 11, 2015 Author Posted February 11, 2015 I had disabled updates through the GPO settings turning all automatic updates off, as a bandwidth saver, the fact students can't install apps so the update would probably fail and might also fail due to proxy settings. The idea was to update it with a new version via MSI. However the MSI is not uninstalling the product cleanly which is the issue - obviously items are being left or by using chrome it has added settings which the MSI is then unable to uninstall. I guess I am looking for a google Chrome remover cleanup script or uninstall tool.
free780 Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 If you have sccm you can run the uninstall command which will be in the msi as a custom action.
Arthur Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 A while back I went to update to the latest MSI, telling the GPO to Uninstall From All Machines for the old MSI file and then added the MSI file for the latest version. In both cases did you create an MST to go along with the MSIs that sets the NOGOOGLEUPDATEPING property to 1? Not doing that will cause issues during installation if your PCs are behind a proxy.
Arthur Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 I am now finding that the old version 31.0.1650.57 is installed on the machines and working, but control panel is not showing Google Chrome as being installed Try this... "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Google\Chrome\Application\31.0.1650.57\Installer\setup.exe" --uninstall --multi-install --chrome --system-level --force-uninstall
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