Questions on VDA Cleanup Tool

Questions on VDA Cleanup Tool

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1. Why there is inconsistencies and different behavior? For some machines it does not ask for reboot and for some it does.

Yes, This is expected behavior for some machines.  At the startup we check for couple of services. If we find them running, we stop them and do a reboot before continuing uninstall.  This is specific to VDA 7.7 to 7.11 on Windows 10 and Windows 2012 R2 only. This change was made in last release to solve the following issue. 

• Uninstall times for VDA versions 7.7 to 7.11 running on Windows 2012 R2 or Windows 10 operating systems have been reduced.  Earlier it was taking more than 20 minutes to uninstall VDA. This caused some users to think that VDA Cleanup tool has stopped working, closing the tool in the middle of uninstall and leaving the machine in a bad state. 

2. Is there way to identify if VDA clean-up has to run again after its reboot? Is there scheduled task that runs behind this? 

Yes, there is a way. After the reboot, SCCM will check followings:
• If there is runonce registry key for VDACleanup. 
• If VDACleanupUtility.exe process is running.  
 

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