symantec endpoint protection uninstall password

I don't want to post links here, but you can look up 'sc sdset' and find documentation. However, since it didn't seem like it was ever going to happen, I finally found a workaround that worked 'enough' for my needs. This would have been a worthwhile feature, for sure.

We are only dealing with corporate owned devices. I know this is not an antivirus program but IT WOULD BE AWESOME if we could have a way to protect the services from being stopped and the agent from being uninstalled. In the past, I've used Symantec Endpoint Protection, and Bitdefender Gravity Zone, and they both had the ability to password protect the agent such that it couldn't be uninstalled or stopped by even an admin if they didn't have the specific password to do so. I have an admin user who is actually manually stopping the Screenconnect service.

I was just encouraged in a support ticket to put in an enhancement request for this very thing. It's discouraging this has been sitting here for 6 years. My compromise on this would be as follows if the user tries to uninstall through the control panel, require a password but also having a command line utility that allows uninstall without a password.

When this happens, it is a big waste of time for us to fix it through LabTech. Usually, the user is unaware that the software was installed by us in order to support them (despite the onboarding package they receive) and they are under the impression that it is some frivolous program installed by one of those commonly used programs that installs junk along with it (not pointing any fingers) and they remove SC from their computer. Furthermore, privileged operating system access for a user should not impede our ability to support that user. For most clients, limited access is transparent but for most users but for some, admin access is necessary. If we did that, we WOULD be using best practices but we also may not keep our clients. However, we cannot revoke administrative access from clients that own their infrastructure. That is normally how things would be done.

Symantec endpoint protection uninstall password