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Once this went out to the clients it was a smooth uninstall of Symantec and a smooth install of System Center Endpoint Protection without bothering the end user or rebooting the client PC.Have you ever been in a situation where you couldn’t download or install certain applications on your PC, and wondered what the problem could be? Well, it could be Symantec Endpoint Protection getting in the way. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SMC In the registry file add “-“ after “=” on these two keys NOTE: The default password for Symantec Endpoint Protection is symantec. Regedit.exe /s \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME\removesymantecep.reg This is what was in my batch file:Ĭd C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection I placed my batch file in the packages directory on the SCCM server and pushed it out via software deployment to the clients.

I had to create a batch file that performed the following steps. Here is what I had to do to get past this.

Manually uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection on 10,000 clients was not an option. Here is the resulting error when it came time to remove Symantec Endpoint Protection. I performed a manual install of SCEP just to see what would happen. Programs: Symantec Endpoint Protection LiveUpdate 3.3 (Symantec Corporation) To install System Center Endpoint Protection you must manually uninstall the following programs and then run the wizard again. The System Center Endpoint Protection Setup wizard was unable to remove one or more programs that conflict with System Center Endpoint Protection. HRESULT=0x8004FF67 Description=System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection installation error. %systemdrive%\WINDOWS\CCM\Logs\EndpointProtectionAgent.logįailed to install endpoint protection client with exit code = 0x8004ff67.ĭetail error message is : Sure enough the require uninstall password was causing the issue. I knew I would run into problems because Symantec Endpoint Protection was on these clients and there was a password required to uninstall it. Recently I had to deploy System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP).