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uninstall DELL Support Assist

  • 14 March 2024
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Hi All

we’ve noticed DELL Support Assist started running an agent task that is hogging major amounts of system RAM
we have a dispersed user population so I'd like to look at uninstalling the DELL Support Assist application from our remote users via Automox, has anyone managed to uninstall DELL SA remotely?

cheers :)


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Hi, I just tested this in our environment. 

for evaluation I just did a simple exit 1 since I manually ran this but i suppose you can get creative and look for the program

Eval:

$program = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "Dell SupportAssist"}

if($program){
exit 1
}else {
exit 0
}

Remediation: 

$program = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "Dell SupportAssist"}
try {

if ($program) {
$ID = $program.IdentifyingNumber
$Name = $program.Name
Write-Host "Uninstalling $Name ..."

$uninstallResult = (Start-Process "C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList "/x $ID /quiet /norestart" -PassThru -Wait).ExitCode

if ($uninstallResult -eq 0) {
Write-Host "$Name has been uninstalled."
exit 0
} else {
Write-Host "Failed to uninstall $Name."
exit 1
}
} else {
Write-Host "No programs found to uninstall."
exit 0
}
} catch {
Write-Host "An error occurred: $_"
exit 1
}

 

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