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skissinger -> RE: Remove Software when removed from group (10/6/2008 9:00:42 PM)
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Short answer: no
Long answer: to start, computers have software installed, users do not. To overcome this issue, do you already know *exactly* what computers belong to what users? No exceptions? (If you do, I'm sure we'd all like to hear it; we're always looking for how people accomplish 100% compliance on that issue!)
But if you do know that precisely/exactly, and can make that association by mapping views within the database, then sure; you could probably craft a collection of "Computers which have application XYZ, and the main user of this computer is not in usergroup XYZ, so target an advertisement to this collection & uninstall application XYZ".
I was asked to do something just like that a few months ago at the old job, and taking the parameters given to me, created a collection query; and at first glance I could tell there was no way to fully automate that... when the project manager's computer was in the collection of "to be removed", and I *knew* that he was the main proponent of that particular software. (His assistant logged into his computer more often than he did, so they were the primary user according to ConfigMgr! LOL)
So, yes... everything is possible. But often not practical to fully automate. You might want to consider instead doing internal "true-ups", and adding individual computers to an uninstall collection weekly/monthly once confirmed.
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