Remove software package from gpo

A package can be assigned per-user or per-machine. Also, if the package is assigned, it will automatically be installed silently. In order to assign a package you can follow these steps:. When using Group Policy, you can publish a package in order to allow the target user to install it by using Add or Remove programs. The steps for publishing a package are:. Sometimes you may need to redeploy a package for example when doing an upgrade. For redeploying a package you can follow these steps:.

Group Policy also allows you to remove packages which have been deployed in the past. Here are the steps for removing a package:. Log in. The software was distributed through "Computer Configuration" and "assigned" to the clients computers as opposed to "published".

Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong? Thanks Asked 14 years ago views. Posted by: kerjuk 12 years ago. In the console tree, right-click your domain, and then click Properties. Click the Group Policy tab, click the Group Policy object that you used to deploy the package, and then click Edit.

We can see three options i. Published , Assigned and Advanced. When the client computer Re-starts, the Output Messenger Client software package is automatically get installed with default parameters.

When the client computer Re-starts, the Output Messenger Client software package is automatically get installed with the parameters switches you customized. Except my situation is slightly different. I dont want to uninstall from whole site. This is where I think I create a second gpo and apply to that OU, and then do as per above. Just need confirmation from more experience people then me, on whether this is actually the correct way to go about it.

Because a second GPO might just be over written straight away. I cant really 'Block Inheritance if thats that what you mean as there are other policies its pulling down that are needed. What your proposing sounds right to me, its not something that I have done though. Installing msi and removing them from gpo isnt a great way to go about it genuinely as its very limited. That being said it gets the job done in a lot of scenarios.

You could very quickly test this, create a new ou stick in one of the machines and apply the policy, then youll have you answer.

If there are any issues you can always script it and set a start-up script policy to the ou, reboot the machines then remove the policy. Like Leif said, the only other option would be to use a script probably a VBscript would be best, saying that though that's all I use here when it comes to scripting. I created a group called ScienceComputers and added all the science computers to the group, then I excluded the group from the policy, and restarted the computers, the software is being removed as we speak.