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SIlent Removal of Dropbox
Hello, I was looking for a way to silently remove dropbox. I need to do this for a company. I am trying to use DropboxUninstaller.exe /s in SCCM but it's not working. It pops up a box asking if you wa...
Here is a link to the script as Jay suggested uploaded to my TechNet account. If anyone wants to use this just save it as a batch (.bat) file and it can be silently run in SCCM or anything like it. If you want to run it outside of SCCM you will need to add admin rights to the script or it might not work. The script is notated with REM as to what it is doing. I give no guarentees with this script but it removed it from my users systems with no problem.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Dropbox-Removal-via-SCCM-063fdd08#content
Hope this helps if it does click the like button.
If you are wondering how I did this so you may apply the same idea to other things in the future I used Revo Uninstaller, ran that for Dropbox where it launched the uninstall I just cancelled then had it scan the remaining registry and folder entries and exported that. I then wrote command for every entry left over in order to achive what you see in that link but first starting out by killing the dropbox process in Task Manager so the folders wouldn't get locked down by users using it and finished it by writing in something to remove desktop icons and start menu pins.
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHere is a link to the script as Jay suggested uploaded to my TechNet account. If anyone wants to use this just save it as a batch (.bat) file and it can be silently run in SCCM or anything like it. If you want to run it outside of SCCM you will need to add admin rights to the script or it might not work. The script is notated with REM as to what it is doing. I give no guarentees with this script but it removed it from my users systems with no problem.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Dropbox-Removal-via-SCCM-063fdd08#content
Hope this helps if it does click the like button.
If you are wondering how I did this so you may apply the same idea to other things in the future I used Revo Uninstaller, ran that for Dropbox where it launched the uninstall I just cancelled then had it scan the remaining registry and folder entries and exported that. I then wrote command for every entry left over in order to achive what you see in that link but first starting out by killing the dropbox process in Task Manager so the folders wouldn't get locked down by users using it and finished it by writing in something to remove desktop icons and start menu pins.
If Dropbox is an enterprise level solution, there should be a command line uninstall option. This doesn't seem like a long term solution. Has Dropbox tested this? I also want to add the uninstall feature in SCCM. Are the dropbox engineers working on the command line silent uninstall feature for the next release?
I tried the script and it did not completely uninstall Dropbox. It may be very specific to that environment. I don't have the tfadmin user. It's not an enterprise level solution.
I have no idea if they are working on it. I would say probably not. Most people you ask who work in Enterprise will tell you Dropbox is not ready for Enterprise but people will still pick it up. Like I said above.
You made a good catch with those user files. I actually did not notice that. It would have to be scripted to go through each user looking for those file which can be done with more scripting.
I will have to update it to be freindly for all users then repost. Thanks for the catch.
Alright I edited the script. I actually just cut out the part with the user in it. All that was stored there were install and log files. Like I said before it's a messy uninstall but it will remove the application and prevent it from running any processes. It is the closest thing to an enterprise removal they have now.
I just used:
%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Dropbox\Client\DropboxUninstaller.exe
And that worked fine for InTune and I'm sure it would work for SCCM
