How do I deploy a managed installation to the same device multiple times?
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If you removed the software, run a check in.
When a check in happens the info which software is installed, is written to the KACE inventory.
When you remove a software the inventory is not updated.
Since the KACE checks if the software you want to install is already installed or not, it needs the inventory info.
So do the following:
1. uninstall the software in question
2. force inventory (over the UI or run c:\program files (x86)\quest\kace\runkbot 4 0 manually with admin credentials on the client)
3. check if the software is gone from the inventory
4. assign the software to this system (via label or whatever you want)
5. run a new check in, since the installation is part of the standard check in (the kbot 6 0)
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Uninstalling the software and forcing an inventory update does not remove it from the inventory. I think this is because the software being installed is an enterprise installation package for Adobe Creative Cloud that contains multiple products with independent installations. For instance, uninstalling Creative Cloud and Acrobat DC does not register as uninstalling the custom package that installed them both. That custom package isn't actually a program that has been installed, but it registers as such in Kace. - Nolan_Evans 4 years ago
Top Answer
I found that if I delete the folder in the registry that contains a key specifying the installation package name from Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\, and run a force inventory, Kace will detect that the software has been uninstalled.