Uninstall SCCM client on servers

Question

We have several servers managed by SCCM that sometimes automatically restart. This will cause some services to be interrupted for a period of time, so we have decided to uninstall the SCCM clients on these servers. Do you know how to do it and how to ensure that the client is completely uninstalled?

Answer 1

Hi,

Hope everything is going well.

1,We can manually uninstall the SCCM client on these servers by running a simple command: ccmsetup.exe /uninstall. The steps are as below:

a,On your Windows computer, run the command prompt as an administrator.

b,Run the command: cd %windir%\ccmsetup

c,Run the command: ccmsetup.exe /uninstall

d,Restart your computer after you uninstall the client agent.

2,To monitor the SCCM client agent uninstall, go to C:\Windows\ccmsetup\Logs on the computer and open the ccmsetup.log file to monitor the client uninstallation. The line “CcmSetup is exiting with return code 0” in ccmsetup.log confirms that the SCCM client has been removed successfully. As shown below in my lab:

3,We can also configure not to install the SCCM client on your servers in the client push installation properties option as shown below. However, this will prevent all servers from automatically installing the SCCM clients.

Hope my answer could help you. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do feel free to contact me.

Best regards,

Simon

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