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Excluding and re-including applications within the Office 365 ProPlus Suite

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Eric_Wayne
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Mar 24, 2020
When installing Office 365 ProPlus using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT), the standard configuration includes the entire suite of applications by default. In some cases, IT Pros need to exclude one ...
Updated Feb 10, 2023
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Quinn Wade
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Apr 23, 2021

Thanks  for the post. I am especially interested in the "Remove specific apps after install". I would like to remove Sfb now as we have begun to make the full transition to Teams. I have attempted the options as presented but I have been unsuccessful. Here is my config xml and a picture of what I receive when it is run.


<Configuration>
<Add Version="MatchInstalled">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="MatchOS"
<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Display Level="Full" />
</Configuration>