First, a little background on this. We have SEPM 11 installed on one server and SEPM 12 installed on a new server. We are needing to migrate all of our clients from the SEPM 11 server to the SEPM 12 server. We also need to upgrade from SEP 11 to SEP 12 on all of the workstations. I have found a way to do all of this, but it takes a lot of interaction on my part. I'm looking for a more automated process.
I have tried running a script on the clients to uninstall SEP 11 as well as Live Update. It runs through and uninstalls the programs properly. When I try to push out SEP 12 to these machines via the SEPM console or group policy, though, it always gives me "Error 2343. Specified path is empty." Here is the script I run to uninstall SEP 11 (11.0.7200.1147 in this particular case) and Live Update:
MsiExec.exe /norestart /q/x{DE889CC8-F305-4C4C-BAE0-EF626E45CB9D} REMOVE=ALL
"C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LSETUP.EXE" -u -q
If I go back to these machines after running this script and run the new CleanWipe program, they will then install SEP 12 either pushed from the SEPM console or via group policy. This works, but is way too much interaction on my part. We have almost 8000 workstations and I really don't want to have to do this to all of them.
Is there any way I can possibly automate this process some more? I have read that the new version of CleanWipe cannot be ran silently. If this has to be run to get all items off then that is going to prohibit the automated process quite a bit. Is there more I can add to my script to remove the items that are still being left behind or causing the 2343 error?
I have went through the above mentioned process on a couple of labs we have in one of our buildings. The entire process per lab (labs with 25 machines) took almost 30 minutes. As you can imagine, with 8000 workstations, that is going to take an impossibly long time to get everybody migrated to the new platform. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.