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So far the removal has been very smooth. I’ve checked about 60 or so workstations in two computer labs and they have all done it just fine. Printers have also reappeared.

I have my images on a seperate internal hard drive and my database is already backed up. Thank you guys.

That is sooooo nice. Testing it out on my computer with a handful of my printers.

I’m running buid 5020 and found that the printers don’t show up correctly in the list. My .inf files are stored on a server share. For example, we’ll use //server/share/printer.inf.

When I add the printer, its added like the address above. When I save it, it changes to /server/share/printer.inf.

If I change it to ///server/share/printer.inf it will show correctly in the list of printers.

However, if you search for the printer instead of listing all printers and scrolling, its shows all three ///. It appears that its just a visual issue but doesn’t happen on all the printers, only some. I’ve had to go through all nearly 300 printers and ensure its typed correctly. can be a bit confusing.

I was running build an earlier build from a month ago but upgraded to see if it would fix the issue. It didn’t so the bug is still there, at least for me. Its something I can avoid since I know its there, but a bug is a bug.

It also appears that clicking Update Printer or Add Printer removes one / each time.

Had anyone found a way to issue a command to remove the old legacy client and install the new client? using the msiexec commands have proven unsuccessful to remove the old legacy client. I edited the new client’s msi file to put my servers IP address in and it looks like it’ll deploy out via AD just fine but removing the legacy client is the issue. I have 1000+ computers with it and manual removal looks to be a long process.

Nevermind, I had a brainfart moment and forgot I can just use the Product ID. msiexec /x {91C5D423-B6AB-4EAB-8F17-2BB3AE162CA1} if anyone happens to be looking for this info too.

if exist "C:\Program Files (x86)\FOG\Handlers.dll" goto end
if exist "C:\Program Files\FOG\Handlers.dll" goto end
goto update
:update
msiexec /x {91C5D423-B6AB-4EAB-8F17-2BB3AE162CA1} /quiet /passive
\\pathtomsi\FOGService.msi /qn /passive
net stop fogservice
net start fogservice
:end

I’m sure there is a more elegant way of doing it, but this works.