{"id":2250,"date":"2018-05-07T23:56:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2018-05-07T23:58:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:58:18","slug":"reset-the-state-of-software-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Reset the State of Software Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had to pull Firefox out of Software Center and then made a new Firefox application.\u00a0 Both the old Firefox and the new Firefox were listed on a particular machine even though I had retired and deleted the old Firefox application.\u00a0 No matter what I did, the old software persisted!\u00a0 After some reading: it appears that SCCM tracks Software Center events in WMI.\u00a0 Even if you remove and reinstall the SCCM client, the &#8220;ghost software&#8221; remains.\u00a0 I was able to finally clear off the software icon by doing a complete policy reset using the following WMIC command on the client and then waiting:<\/p>\n<p><code>WMIC \/Namespace:\\\\root\\ccm path SMS_Client CALL ResetPolicy 1 \/NOINTERACTIVE<\/code><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Soli Deo Gloria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had to pull Firefox out of Software Center and then made a new Firefox application.\u00a0 Both the old Firefox and the new Firefox were listed on a particular machine even though I had retired and deleted the old Firefox application.\u00a0 No matter what I did, the old software persisted!\u00a0 After some reading: it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/?p=2250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reset the State of Software Center&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sccm","category-tech-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wiG8-Ai","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leinss.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}