Fixlet Help - Removal of Windows Messenger 5.1

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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Guys

We have just undertook a rollout of MS Lync to the business, so this means that IM (windows messenger) as such is redundant.

I’ve found a nifty way of removing the messenger client and I can do this from the run cmd.

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

How can I now get that to run in BigFix? It must be something like this? It doesnt seem to be working however - just stays running:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

waithidden C:\WINDOWS\system32\RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Help greatfully received.

Ben

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

I put it in the Action debugger (part of the Fixlet Debugger) and it errored saying “could not find INF file “%windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,””. This said to me “oh, the Action script evaluator is trying to deal with the INF file on it’s own”. So, that means we need to hide that part of the line from the Action script evaluator by putting it in quotes.

This did not return an error:

waithidden C:\WINDOWS\system32\RunDll32 "advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove"

But I did not check to see if it actually did anything.