Endpoint Protection

We acquired some offices and need to remove SEP from 100+ desktops. SEP is password protected and we cannot uninstall it when on the local desktop, because we do not have the password. We can do it with CleanWipe and I know CleanWipe cannot be used in a script, but we need to be able to script it as it would take too long to run it manually. Is there a way to create a script to remove it?

The SEP service is locked down where I cannot stop it and I noticed SEP is set to protect itself from tampering. I was thinking if I could disable the tampering setting through a script then may be I could use a script that manually deletes everything (registery entries, files, services, etc.). Is it possible to disable the tampering setting via command line or script?

See if this article helps:

Unable to silently uninstall and reinstall Symantec Endpoint Protection when an uninstall password is present.

There is a step where you are suppose to create a group with no password in SEPM and copy the profile.xml file so you can important it. The problem is we don't use or have SEPM. Can I get the profile.xml file from somewhere else?

I've sent you a PM.

Thanks Brian. It appears the importing of the configuration file is failing. Below is what I see in the SEPprep log.

11/30/2016 16:38:05:753 SEPprep starting!
11/30/2016 16:38:05:753 Attempting to run: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\smc.exe" -importconfig C:\SEP\policy-import.xml
11/30/2016 16:38:36:233 Exit code: 3
11/30/2016 16:38:36:233 Attempting to run: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\smc.exe" -stop
11/30/2016 16:39:06:747 Exit code: 0
11/30/2016 16:39:06:981 Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.6608.6300 is installed.
11/30/2016 16:39:06:981 SEPprep stopping!

Not really much there to determine a root cause. The file I gave you was from a SEP 14 test box. I don't have one from a 12.1 box with your same verison. Not sure if this could be the problem or not.

Hi,

Ideally admin should be able to remove password through the SEPM console. 

After that can unisntall SEP with varity of ways.

Uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH184988

But it looks here you have no choice than running cleanwipe manually on SEP installed computers.