Client Management Suite

Hi

Can someone please help me with this, I want to know different ways through which i can use altiris to uninstall patches from a system.

One technique that is known to me is creating a software package using the same source as that of the patch with the right silent switch, Is there any other way we can do it.

If I understand your statement correctly, you are referring to the command line statements using msiexec with /uninstall switch . That is the simplest and easiest way I have used to remove a patch. I don't know if there is any other way.

We do an uninstall using the code from the registry.  For example, here's one I pulled from my laptop:

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Oarpmany.exe" /removereleaseinpatch "{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}" "{0F6C4F72-6084-437B-9B35-F59B09E3C1B0}" "1033" "0"

We test beginning with this command line and modify as necessary.  This particular one is from HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall, but I believe only 32-bit updates will appear there.  For my 64-bit system, the remaining items are found here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{8E34682C-8118-31F1-BC4C-98CD9675E1C2}.KB2416472

Sample UninstallString value from this key:
c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\SetupCache\Extended\setup.exe /uninstallpatch {3162617C-537F-3BB6-8D0C-C6021F442391} /parameterfolder Extended

spuninst from the KBblahblah directory for the relevant patch? But thats more for one machine when i'm at the machine.