Services - Uninstall

Declaration

<AMSERVICES ACTIVITY="uninstall" SERVICE="text" 
REMOTEMACHINE="text" 
REMOTEDOMAIN="text" 
REMOTEUSERNAME="text" 
REMOTEPASSWORD="text" />

Description: Uninstalls a local or remote service.

Practical Usage

Used to the process of uninstalling a particular service, either on the local or remote machine.

Service Parameters

Property	Type	Required	Default	Markup	Description
Service Name	Text	Yes	(Empty)	SERVICENAME="Task Scheduler"	The name of the service to uninstall.
Include devices in the list of services (local connection only)					If enabled, indicates that device drivers will be included in the Service name parameter's drop-down list of services. This parameter is disabled by default and is not available if a remote service is specified. This is a design time parameter and therefore includes no markups.

Computer Parameters

Property	Type	Required	Default	Markup	Description
Local computer					If enabled, indicates that this activity will uninstall a service on the local computer. This parameter is enabled by default. If this parameter is selected, the Another computer parameter becomes inactive. This is a visual mode parameter used during design time only, therefore, it contains no markups.
Another computer					If enabled, indicates that this activity will uninstall a service on a remote computer. The parameters below become active if this parameter is enabled. This is a visual mode parameter used during design time only, therefore, it contains no markups.
Computer	Text	Yes	(Empty)	REMOTEMACHINE="MachineName"	The computer name of the remote machine in which to connect to.
Domain	Text	Yes	(Empty)	REMOTEDOMAIN="DomainName"	The domain that the remote machine belongs to.
Username	Text	Yes	(Empty)	REMOTEUSERNAME="Username"	A valid username used to log onto the remote machine. This user must have proper permissions to modify services on the remote machine.
Password	Text	Yes	(Empty)	REMOTEPASSWORD="password"	The password associated with the username entered above.

Description tab - A custom description can be provided on the Description tab to convey additional information or share special notes about a task step.

Error Causes tab - Specify how this step should behave upon the occurrence of an error. (Refer to Task Builder > Error Causes Tab for details.)

On Error tab - Specify what AWE should do if this step encounters an error as defined on the Error Causes tab. (Refer to Task Builder > On Error Tab for details.)

Example

The sample AML code below can be copied and pasted directly into the Steps panel of the Task Builder.

Description: Uninstall a remote service.

<AMSERVICES ACTIVITY="uninstall" SERVICE="Task Scheduler" 
REMOTEMACHINE="machine_name" REMOTEDOMAIN="domain.name" 
REMOTEUSERNAME="user" REMOTEPASSWORD="AM1H2tpzU1xiDL5+TNzMYl3hA==aME" />