Sharing a story – adding and removing symantec endpoint protection manager

[jagablack]

Just wanted to share a use-case here at my company. We check for antivirus using the vbscript:

strComputer = WScript.Arguments(0)



Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _

& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\" & strComputer & "rootcimv2")

Set colSoftware = objWMIService.ExecQuery _

("Select * from Win32_Product where (Caption='Symantec Endpoint Protection')")



For Each objSoftware in colSoftware

wscript.echo objSoftware.Version

Next

The above script is launched from the Execute Local Process/Command submenu:

cscript /nologo C:toolsSymantecChecker.vbs $computer

We then can deploy Symantec to the machine by the Deployment menu and selecting their setup.exe.

We can then uninstall Symantec from the machine using Symantec’s SEPprep64.exe tool (with proper edits to the ini file), also fed to the Deployment menu.

Anyway, a quick three point punch from checking, adding, and removing Symantec Endpoint Protection remotely using BatchPatch. Thanks again for an awesome product.

[doug]

Jeremy – Thanks for sharing! This is a great use of BatchPatch, for sure.

One note: If you’re interested in ditching your .vbs script, you could hardcode the command directly into BatchPatch to retrieve the version number:

WMIC PATH Win32_Product WHERE caption='Symantec Endpoint Protection' GET version

You could input the above command into either of the ‘Create/modify user-defined commands’ sections under ‘Get information,’ or ‘Execute remote process/command’

-Doug

[jagablack]

Thanks Doug, I will try that.

[Author]

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