Hi Folks Do you know if there is a way to uninstall fleet from Windows & re-install without needing to do a restart before re-installing?

Hi @Tiernan! Do you mean fleetd here? (

fleet-osquery.msi

) Is re-installing not working for you? AFAIK it should override the existing fleet installation, if not please let us know.

Hi @Lucas Rodriguez yes the msi installer that you create via the Fleet command line tool. The install fails if the device is not restarted after first uninstalling. We have had this issue when changing our endpoints to a new version that doesn't include the user visible desktop agent

Ah ok, we fixed this recently, but I believe the issue is only fixed for installations that happened after/with the fix (couple of months ago)

We are uninstalling & reinstalling via powershell script pushed from our MDM so having to restart is a headache for us

OK, was the package generated recently? Or are these old packages?

the one we are using for installing now is recent but the the one we are uninstalling is from about a year ago

Thank you, keep us posted. This is the issue we fixed in January 2023 related to uninstallation/installation in Windows.

@Lucas Rodriguez Forgot to update here. The latest version can be uninstalled & re-intstalled with out a need for restart. the older version a still a bit of a headache but we'll work through them 🙂 Thanks for the help