How to Remove Unused Applications Automatically From Windows Machines. Are you looking for an automated method to Remove Unused applications?
If so, we can do this through CM 2012 and Orchestrator. ConfigMgr 2012 Software metering and System Center Orchestrator Runbook are the main features used to perform this task.
Lastly, software metering data can be valuable! This post provides all the details on automatically removing unused applications from Windows computers. This guide will show you step-by-step instructions on setting up your system to detect and uninstall no longer used programs.
This helps free up space and improve your computer’s performance. The process is simple and easy to follow, making it a useful resource for anyone looking to keep their Windows machine running smoothly.
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How to Remove Unused Applications Automatically From Windows Machines
A series of blog posts can help you automate the “unused application removal process”. The following Five topics are covered in those posts. Neil Peterson has done a wonderful job by sharing these posts. Find the post details below.
- Best Way to Uninstall SCCM Client | Remove ConfigMgr Client
- SCCM ConfigMgr Asset Intelligence Reports | Default Reports | Configuration Manager
1. Internals of software metering: This is all about creating rules and verifying that software metering is enabled on the client and server sides.
| Remove Unused Applications Automatically From Windows Machines | Details |
|---|---|
| Collection creation based on software metering data | The collection will be created using the data collected through software metering and used during the Final Removal process. |
| Software removal based on collection membership | This covers how to remove software based on collection membership. This collection can be used to target software removal Applications or packages. |
| Sample automation that provides advanced warning of pending software removal | Based on the primary user’s User Device Affinity data, a notification message about removing unused applications/software from their primary machine will be sent to them. |
| An orchestrated final removal process | This explains how to create an Orchestrator Runbook to automate the removal process. |
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Resources
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How to notify user about unused software – without orchestrator integration
We have enabled software metering in our environment, now that we have identified 200 users have not used the metered software for more than 30 days, so next step is to notify the users that they have a software and not being used for more than 30 days and in 15 days the software will be automatically removed from the computer.
Requirement from business to have a popup on computers that has unused software with Software name, Number of days unused and days left to uninstall from workstation.
We need to achieve this with out orchestrator integration, any help will be much appreciated.
hi sudarsan, did you get a solution for your query. Our team also have the same requirement and we are searching for the most feasible method. if you got anything to share with us please reply at ranjanmanna@gmailDOTcom