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Deploy Office 365 and uninstall stand-alone office at once?
Does anyone have a process to push Office 365 while removing older versions of stand-alone office (2016 or 2019) as part of that process? The deploy packages for Office 365 can have a remove option in the configuration file, but that always fails when an older stand-alone version is already on a machine. Our current Windows management tool allows for pre or post scripts, but I do not see that as an option for Intune. I could write a pre-install powershell/batch script if that were allowed.
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Have you tried the removemsi switch in the config file instead?
Hi TomCSB,
The easiest workaround is to package the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) as a Win32 app in Intune.
That way you can add a short PowerShell script to clean up any existing Office installs before running the new one.
Quick flow:
- Script removes old Office (Click-to-Run or MSI).
- ODT installs Microsoft 365 Apps using your XML config).
Gives you full control and works much more reliably than the built-in remove option.
