Hi all,
I am home from traveling and trying to clean up lab stuff. Before I need to be social and ready for New Years Eve. So first thing I do fails. I am on my View desktop, which is Windows 10, and I try and use the Veeam B&R console. I had forgotten I had updated my B&R server to Update three but had not updated the Veeam B&R console on my desktop. But when I start the Console, and thinking I will be prompted to updated something else happens.
So now, you may be thinking why is Michael doing a blog on this? Just uninstall the beta console and install a GA version. Of course, if that had worked, there would be no article. But I try and do the uninstall.
As you can see I have a problem. My GoogleFu was very strong, but at first I found nothing to help. But then I found - by accident something that mostly does. So here we go.
- Open a command prompt on the desktop, and make sure it is admin.
- Execute the following command:
wmic product list brief > installed.txt
- In the installed.txt file you will find program names, IdentifyingNumbers, Name, Vendor and version.
- What we need is the IdentifyingNumber value. You will copy and paste it - for each installed Veeam program - to the command line.
- To use the number see the example below.
msiexec /x {weird long number}
- For what I did you can see it below.
- Now, you need to remove the following folders:
- C:\Program Files\Veeam
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam
- C:\ProgramData\Veeam
- After this is done, now restart.
- You will not have any Veeam components in your Add Remove programs and you can in fact install the console now.
I got a lot of help from this article that helped me with my article! Also, I got into this position due to mixing beta and not beta in the same lab. At one point I had installed a beta console on my desktop. Won’t do that again.
Hope that this helps,
Michael
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