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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Thanks for the reply, I tried that too using PublisherRetail as the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/troubleshoot/installation/product-ids-supported-office-deployment-click-to-run. It did perform the install, but I noticed that it added "Publisher 2016" as a separate entry in add/remove and it didn't appear to be part of the O365 suite as compared to a fresh install which includes Publisher. Meaning, if I do a fresh install of O365 without excluding Publisher then it's bundled with O365 and is not listed as a separate entry in Add/Remove. I'm not sure the ramifications of this being installed as a separate product but I was worried it wasn't correct. It seems there is a difference between ProductID and ExcludeApp, since one is mentioned as a Product and one is an App? Perhaps if there was an "IncludeApp" keyword in the XML that would work better.
At any rate, after all that - my subsequent tests seemed to work OK using the original XML that I mentioned in my first post. Not sure if something went wrong with Intune during my first test but I tried 2 more times using the XML which "de-excludes" Publisher and that seems to do the trick now. WHEW! 🙂