No problems on a 'pure' Windows 10 machine though. No sign of Teams at all, even after restarting a couple times and signing in. In all cases, Teams Machine-Wide Installer never showed up. For the errors a couple times Office 365 installed normally, but sometimes it just didn't install. Testing on a 'pure' machine worked as expected. Testing was useless on that machine however. I assumed uninstalling it would make it like Office 365 was not there, enough to test some deployment options. But if I uninstall and then reinstall that doesn't always work. I noticed recently that an install on a 'pure' Windows 10 machine that's never had Office 365 works fine, like normal. I'm using the office deployment method for Office 365, including Teams. Why? What's left over from the original install, and how can I remove that? If I uninstall Office 365 on a test machine and then reinstall it, not everything reinstalls.

adding will result in a completely quiet installation.Cross posted on r/office365 and r/MicrosoftTeams but no one replied. Here is the full config.xml with these lines added. I added the following lines to my existing config.xml During that reconfiguring, Skype can be removed.

You cannot simply 'uninstall skype for business', but what you can do is re-configure Office 365. I reboot, Skype for Business is still installed. I see the Office Deployment tool run successfully, it recommends a reboot. I run the command line for the office deployment tool using the above XML: I kill the skype task using: taskkill /f /im lync.exe and I see Skype close and the task disappear XML file called RemoveSkype.xml for removal that looks like this: I have downloaded the Office Deployment Tool and I have created an. Eventually I will deploy a script using SCCM for the removal but right now I am testing.Īccording to this site my product ID is SkypeforBusinessRetail: We are transitioning to Teams and I am trying to uninstall Skype for Business. Our environment consists of WindEnterprise workstations running Office 365.

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