Uninstall user-installed apps through Intune

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AaronBergantinos-1492 asked Apr 13, '22 LuDaiMSFT-0289 commented Apr 19, '22

Uninstall user-installed apps through Intune

Hello Microsoft Community,

Scenario: My company has cloud-managed laptops using Intune. All users only have standard access on their laptop and cannot perform administrative tasks, but they used to be administrators and install whatever they wanted. There is some software reporting weaknesses in its different versions and instead of updating it, we would like to remove it from the applied devices. I tried to create a Win32 app to uninstall the software, but it would only work with the Win32 version of the app. eg: Node.js 17.9.0 Win32 app would uninstall Node.js 17.9.0 from devices running that version, but would not uninstall it from laptops running older versions of the software.

Question: Is there a direct way to target an app (and all its previous versions) and uninstall it from the target group of devices?

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Answer 1 · 2022-04-14T02:07:42.987Z

LuDaiMSFT-0289 answered Apr 14, '22 LuDaiMSFT-0289 commented Apr 18, '22

@AaronBergantinos-1492 Thanks for posting in our Q&A.

Currently, we can check the app version on the target device and then try to find the msi file matching the version number. After that, it is suggested to try to create a win32 app to uninstall the targer version app. For more details, please refer to the following link:
https://techpress.net/how-to-uninstall-different-versions-of-winzip-software-installed-on-windows-10-system-using-microsoft-intune/
Note: Non-Microsoft link, just for the reference.

If you want to uninstall other versions, please check if the other versions are the same “UninstallString” in registry. If yes, all the versions of the app will be uninstalled. If not, it is needed to create multiple win32 apps to uninstall different versions of the app.

Hope it will help.

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LuDaiMSFT-0289 · Apr 18 at 02:22 AM

@AaronBergantinos-1492 I am currently standing by for further update from you and would like to know how things are going. If you have any questions or concerns on the recent information I've provided you, please don't hesitate to let me know.

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Answer 2 · 2022-04-18T14:23:37.16Z

AaronBergantinos-1492 answered Apr 18, '22 LuDaiMSFT-0289 commented Apr 19, '22

@LuDaiMSFT-0289, thanks for the information. That was helpful!

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LuDaiMSFT-0289 · Apr 19 at 12:56 AM

@AaronBergantinos-1492 You're welcome. I'm glad to discuss with you.

Thanks and have a nice day. : )

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