Installing SAPgui 720 using Microsoft SCCM (sms)

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Microsoft System Center Config Manager.

On workstations that we installed the SAPgui update using MS SCCM 2007 we are not able to uninstall sapgui.

SAP has recommended that we use SAPgui installation server to install the updates (instead of a tool such as SCCM).

Please let me know if you have used MS SCCM (config manager) 2007 to install SAPgui 720, and if so, are you able to uninstall the sapgui from the control panel sucesfully?

Thanks.

[macarranza]

I posted this on another thread... we use SCCM to roll out our GUI. Something that works really well for us:

1. Create the package on the installation server.

2. Compress the package to a single-file installer (executable). This feature is available in the installation server.

3. Use whatever method (SMS?) to run that executable on the client PC. There is a silent option if you prefer.

4. Have a standard .ini file that resides on a network drive (a DC is an excellent place for this). After all, if your users don't have access to the network, then they don't have access to SAP.

5. Push an icon to the user's PC that runs saplogon with the /INI_FILE option to point to the network .ini file.

6. If your users use NWBC, push the registry entries needed for the connections.

That's it! Any changes to the .ini file that you need to distribute can be easily done by changing the .ini file in your network drive. Just make sure it's read-only to your users so only you can change it. Any changes to the NWBC connections can be distributed by pushing a registry entry.

For GUI updates, you can update the installation server and repeat steps 2 - 3.

And yes, we are able to uninstall it via control panel when we follow this method.