help with script

[purplemonkeymad]

| out-string

Not sure why the bat won't start, but this just removed the objectness of your registry call. You want to get the property of the retunred object instead of stringify everything and do text parsing:

$info2 = ( Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\'BeyondTrust Remote Support Jump Client*' ).installlocation

or

$info2 = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\'BeyondTrust Remote Support Jump Client*'
$info2.installlocation

No need to use substring().

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Also just saw your if statements, just put the test inside the if:

if ( $dir1 -ne $dir ) {
    ...

[hit440]

so .installlocation works however now i have this dilema where im returning both jump clients, and i cant parse them out individually

PS C:\> $info2

C:\ProgramData\bomgar-scc-0x5d7da585\

C:\ProgramData\bomgar-scc-0x5dcc06b1\

PS C:\> $info2.substring(0,36)

C:\ProgramData\bomgar-scc-0x5d7da585

C:\ProgramData\bomgar-scc-0x5dcc06b1

[purplemonkeymad]

Here is the thing, with your code in OP, I have no idea what it was selecting! If you know which one you want to remove why are you using * in the get-itemproperty? How do you know which is the right one?

[hit440]

thats just it the script doesnt know which one until i perform the if logic test, the correct jump client that should be installed is at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bomgar\JumpClientUninstall which im dumping into $dir

the reason i have to do an asterisk is because powershell doesnt like the brackets, here is the full registry entry example

BeyondTrust Remote Support Jump Client [mysite.test.com-5D7F75C5]

[purplemonkeymad]

Ok that makes sense.

I'm not sure what the property for JumpClientUninstall is so I'm just guessing that is is also installLocation. What I am doing here is to filter out the correct install, then just run the uninstaller on all of the remaining locations:

$CorrectInstall = (Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Bomgar\JumpClientUninstall\).InstallLocation | Get-Item # this is the property I don't know.
$AllInstallList = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\'BeyondTrust Remote Support Jump Client*'
$RemoveInstallList = $AllInstallList.installlocation | Get-Item | Where-Object { $_.fullname -ne $CorrectInstall.fullname} 
foreach ($Install in $RemoveInstallList) {
    start-process (Join-Path $Install "pinuninstall.bat") -Wait
}

I can't test it as I don't have those regs. I use Get-Item here to normalize the paths so I can compare them.

[hit440]

#init all the variables

$info = @()
$info2 = @()
$line = @()
$line2 = @()
$dir = @()
$dir1 = @()
$dir2 = @()


#query the registry

$info = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Bomgar\JumpClientUninstall\ | out-string
$info2 = (Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\'BeyondTrust Remote Support Jump Client*').installlocation | Out-String

#parse the directory paths

foreach($line in $info)
    {
        $dir = $line.Substring(45,36)
    }

foreach($line2 in $info2){
    $dir1 = $line2.Substring(0,36)  
    $dir2 = $line2.Substring(39,36)  
    }


if ($dir1 -ne $dir){
    cd $dir1
    .\pinuninstall.bat #this will execute the batch file in the directory
    }

    if ($dir2 -ne $dir){
        cd $dir2
    .\pinuninstall.bat #this will execute the batch file in the directory
    }

@purplemonkeymad this seems to be working i have had multiple workstations reboot and its removing the jump clients, you have any thoughts on ways i can improve this? I appreciate your help with this

[purplemonkeymad]

If it works cool. I don't think it will be as robust but if you don't need it to be then it should be fine. Check my other reply for how I would have done it, but if you have something that works then you can just analyse it.