The Older Version Of Cisco Anyconnect Cannot Be Removed

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I am experiencing an issue when attempting to upgrade users to 4.9.05042 via SCCM. My coworker created a standard MSI deployment but it keeps failing on certain machines. After some research, I determined that it is failing to remove the old registry keys. The old version will partially uninstall but the new version will not install due to this. The usual advice on this forum and elsewhere seems to be to re-run the install/remove program for the last version of the program. If you have it, try it - it might work. But if you don't have it, or that effort fails, or you just want to go straight to the problem, try the following.

This article refers to the Cisco AnyConnect VPN. If you're looking for information on the Prisma Access VPN Beta that uses the GobalConnect app, see: Prisma Access VPN Landing Page.
If you're not sure which service you're using, see: How do I know if I'm using the Cisco AnyConnect VPN or the Prisma Access VPN?

Q: How do I uninstall Cisco Anyconnect VPN Client on Mac OS X?

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Answer

If the application is still installed do this:

  1. From the Finder go to the Applications folder.
  2. Look for the Cisco folder and open it
  3. Then double click on Uninstall Anyconnect to start the uninstall process
  4. Follow instructions to uninstall VPN program

Here's the procedure for manually uninstalling the AnyConnect client from a Mac OS X system.

As root, run the following shell script from the Terminal:

You will be prompted for your password. Once you enter it, just follow the steps

If you still having trouble and/or the new Cisco Anyconnect installation complains that you have a version installed, follow these steps:

Enter these commands to clean out the old Cisco VPN kernel extension and reboot the system.

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If you installed the Cisco VPN for Mac version 4.1.08005 package, enter these commands to delete the misplaced files. The deletion of these files will not affect your system, since applications do not use these misplaced files in their current location.

Enter these commands if you no longer need the old Cisco VPN Client or Shimo.

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