Hi,   So I want to silently remove/uninstall SAS 9.3 from a number of machines. The SAS 9.4 Deployment Manager supports the option -uninstallall, the 9.3 DM does not - I checked, it does not recognize the command line option. The 9.3 Deployment User's Guide talks about creating a response file with the components to delete, and then feed that file to the 9.3 DM.   Over the course of years, no SAS 9.3 installation at our client is identical, some computers have components that others have not, which makes creating a response file not an option. And manual uninstalling takes too much time.   Is there an equivalent for -uninstallall or some undocumented command line option for SAS 9.3 which can be used to uninstall the whole lot? If a response file is required for uninstalling SAS 9.3, is it possible to make one where the individual components do not need to be listed, so that everything gets uninstalled? A bit like a wildcard * or something like that. What if I make a response file which has more components listed than were actually installed on the computer -- will the SAS 9.3 DM complain and cancel the uninstallation?   I'll be opening a tracker as well.   I can't believe that this is so hard - every time I advance, I run into a wall...   Thanks for any suggestions, it is -as always- much appreciated.   Michel       ... View more

Hi,   Over the course of many years, our client has asked us to install all kinds of SAS versions and individual components on a multitude of computers. Now they want to standardize the installation (finally!) Ofcourse, without proper procedures and having the installations performed by a number of IT technicians, there is no standard and each installation differs from the next (great - not!).   The general idea is to start from scratch, removing every trace of all previous SAS installations and start again with the installation of SAS 9.4M3, like if SAS has never been installed on the computers. Several machines will no longer need to have SAS, so an uninstallation will suffice on those computers. Reconfiguring all the computers with a fresh Windows installation is not an option.   I've been reading through the Deployment User's Guide, various SAS KB articles and the Communities boards, and everyone suggests using the Deployment Manager to completely uninstall SAS. The problem is that I have various installations (SAS and DataFlux) of various versions in various directories (on some machines I have 3 versions of Enterprise Guide), and that the uninstallation needs to be automated. There are no SAS Services running on the computers.   What would be the risk if delete all the directories and registry entries containing SAS?   Like I said, every trace of SAS needs to be removed. And like I see it, all traces of SAS are in its proper installation directories, plus C:\ProgramData\SAS and AppData\Local and AppData\Roaming in C:\Users, and the Registry.   I also have at my disposal an inventory of all computers containing sas.exe (and other executables) and their proper directories. I can detect the existance of specific files (like sas.exe or eguide.exe), but with the inventory that may not be needed.   1. I would start by correctly removing the SAS Add-in for Office because it hooks into Word and Excel.   2. After that, I would remove C:\Program Files\SAS C:\Program Files\SASHome C:\Program Files\SASHome2 C:\Program Files (x86)\SAS C:\Program Files (x86)\SASHome C:\SAS etc any directories based on my inventory + C:\ProgramData\SAS + C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\SAS + C:\Users\*\AppData\Roaming\SAS   3. Finally, I would remove the specific Registry entries, among others HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SAS Institute Inc. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SAS Institute Inc.   Any thoughts? Comments are greatly appreciated!   Thank you, Michel ... View more