Performing silent uninstallation of Deep Security Agent (DSA) from Windows machine

- Updated:
- 27 Jun 2019
- Product/Version:
- Deep Security 10.0
- Deep Security 10.1
- Deep Security 10.2
- Deep Security 10.3
- Deep Security 11.0
- Deep Security 11.1
- Deep Security 11.2
- Deep Security 11.3
- Deep Security 12.0
- Platform:
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2003 Standard Server Edition
- Windows 2008 Standard Server Edition
- Windows 7 32-bit
- Windows Vista 32-bit
- Windows XP Professional

Summary

Learn how to uninstall the Deep Security Agent via command line. The agent installer is a standard Windows MSI installation package. This procedure is common to most MSI packages.

Details

To silently uninstall Deep Security Agent via Windows command prompt:

Using an account with Administrator privilege, open the command prompt.
Use the "cd" command to change the current directory to where the MSI installer package is located.
If you cannot find the location of MSI package, export the installer from the Deep Security Manager console and locate it to the machine with the agent to be uninstalled.

Make sure the version of the installer you exported is the same as the version of the Deep Security Agent you want to uninstall.
Run the following command:
msiexec.exe /x <exact MSI package name>.msi /quiet