windows patching_uninstall

[Vandana Thakur]

Hello All!

I need to uninstall the windows install package with KB article with help of  ansible.

the  win_update is  not happy with 'absent'

Please help.

Thanks

[J Hawkesworth]

Hmm, I have not had to do this myself.  One thing you could try is using wusa, although I think you may well have to use 'become' on your task as I believe wusa won't run in a 'normal' ansible remote login

- name: uninstall KB1234
  win_shell: wusa /uninstall /kb:1234
  become: yes

Hope this helps,

Jon

[Vandana Thakur]

Hello Jon,

Thanks.

I  worked but to restart the os after uninstall , i  am using this :

    - name: uninstall kb
      win_shell: WUSA /uninstall /kb:{{ kbno }}  /quiet /norestart
      register: uninstall


    - debug: var="uninstall"

    - win_reboot:
      when: uninstall.rc == 0
      reboot_timeout: 1500
      post_reboot_delay: 100

if  the uninstall is  successful.

Since without "  /quiet /norestart " the job was getting stuck as it  needed user input to whether restart or not at windows server side.

Is there any better way to  handle the user input to restart if required in playbook.

Thanks!

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[lloyd noble]

I am struggling with a proper way to remove a patch KB your method is failing for me

---
- name: Install all windows security and critical updates and wait 10 mins
  hosts: all
  become: false
  tasks:
 - name: uninstall kb
      win_shell: WUSA /uninstall /kb:{{ 5015811 }}  /quiet /norestart
      register: uninstall

Error:

ERROR! We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors we got from each:
JSON: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Syntax Error while loading YAML.
  did not find expected '-' indicator
The error appears to be in '/tmp/bwrap_180_6em4f0yx/awx_180_n9swe56o/project/winupdateuninstall.yml': line 7, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
     - name: uninstall kb
      win_shell: WUSA /uninstall /kb: "{{ 5015811 }}"  /quiet /norestart
      ^ here
We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they
start a value. For instance:
    with_items:
      - {{ foo }}
Should be written as:
    with_items:
      - "{{ foo }}"