Removing the incorrect office apps on devices

Hi all,

I have a strange thing with all our intune devices, we have 2 offices installed:

I need to remove the top one (Microsoft 365 - en-us) as it contains ONENOTE which we dont want on devices but within intune there is only one OFFICE we deploy which doesnt contain ONENOTE

When I remove Microsoft 365 - en-us manually onenote is removed

So does any one know how we remove the one that contains onenote?

Thanks in advance

Mobile Application Management (MAM)

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Software Management

Rudy_Ooms_MVP
Oct 16, 2021
AB21805
Hi, just changed some lines it ... nothing much but again.. you will need to change the displayname to exactly the app you whish to remove 🙂

$OfficeUninstallStrings = ((Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*") |
Where {$_.DisplayName -like "Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise - en-us"} |
Select UninstallString).UninstallString
ForEach ($UninstallString in $OfficeUninstallStrings) {
$UninstallEXE = ($UninstallString -split '"')[1]
$UninstallArg = ($UninstallString -split '"')[2] + " DisplayLevel=False"
Start-Process -FilePath $UninstallEXE -ArgumentList $UninstallArg -Wait
}

Looks like its working at my end

Rudy_Ooms_MVP
MVP
Oct 15, 2021
I guess you need to test it first ... but take a look at the uninstall reg key I am mentioning to get the proper displayname 🙂

$OfficeUninstallStrings = ((Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*") `
+ (Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*") |
Where {$_.DisplayName -like "Microsoft 365 - en-us"} |
Select UninstallString).UninstallString

ForEach ($UninstallString in $OfficeUninstallStrings) {
$UninstallEXE = ($UninstallString -split '"')[1]
$UninstallArg = ($UninstallString -split '"')[2] + " DisplayLevel=False"
Start-Process -FilePath $UninstallEXE -ArgumentList $UninstallArg -Wait
}
- AB21805
  Bronze Contributor
  Oct 15, 2021
  Hi Rudy,
  
  thanks for this but no luck is there meant to be a space between " and DisplayLevel=False ?
Rudy_Ooms_MVP
MVP
Oct 16, 2021
I will take a look what happens when I run it on a test device this afternoon, i will keep you posted!
- Rudy_Ooms_MVP
  MVP
  Oct 16, 2021
  AB21805
  Hi, just changed some lines it ... nothing much but again.. you will need to change the displayname to exactly the app you whish to remove 🙂
  
  $OfficeUninstallStrings = ((Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*") |
  Where {$_.DisplayName -like "Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise - en-us"} |
  Select UninstallString).UninstallString
  ForEach ($UninstallString in $OfficeUninstallStrings) {
  $UninstallEXE = ($UninstallString -split '"')[1]
  $UninstallArg = ($UninstallString -split '"')[2] + " DisplayLevel=False"
  Start-Process -FilePath $UninstallEXE -ArgumentList $UninstallArg -Wait
  }
  
  Looks like its working at my end
  - AB21805
    Bronze Contributor
    Oct 18, 2021
    Hi Rudy_Ooms_MVP
    
    I am unable to remove office
    
    Here is the script (which I have tried to run manually on the device rather than intune first)
    
    $OfficeUninstallStrings = ((Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*") |
    Where {$_.DisplayName -like "Office 16 Click-to-Run Licensing Component"} |
    Select UninstallString).UninstallString
    ForEach ($UninstallString in $OfficeUninstallStrings) {
    $UninstallEXE = ($UninstallString -split '"')[1]
    $UninstallArg = ($UninstallString -split '"')[2] + " DisplayLevel=False"
    Start-Process -FilePath $UninstallEXE -ArgumentList $UninstallArg -Wait
    }
    
    Any idea where I am going wrong?

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