Remove home version of Teams, keep school and work version

Question

My workplace uses Microsoft Teams (School & Work) for company wide communication. It typically launces right away no problem but there has been a few times where it hasn't, and a store launches the home version of Teams. I'm curious if there is a way to uninstall the home version of Teams via a GPO, while keeping the school and work version installed. I'm assuming it is possible, and probably even easy, but I'm not overly familiar with GPOs.

Answer 1

Hi @Michael Sheerin

Thanks for visiting our forum. Microsoft Teams tag is mainly focused on the general issue of Microsoft Teams application troubleshooting. Based on your description, this problem is related to Windows Server, which we do not support.

The following is for informational purposes only:

According to our research, you can try the following steps to uninstall the home version of Teams:

1. Start the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in by clicking Start, pointing to Administrative Tools, and then clicking Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. In the console tree, right-click your domain, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Group Policy tab, click the Group Policy Object that you used to deploy the package, and then click Edit.
4. Expand the Software Settings container that contains the software installation item that you used to deploy the package.
5. Click the software installation container that contains the package.
6. In the right-pane of the Group Policy window, right-click the program, point to All Tasks, and then click Remove.
7. Perform one of the following actions: Click Immediately uninstall the software from users and computers, and then click OK. Click Allow users to continue to use the software but prevent new installations, and then click OK.
8. Close the Group Policy snap-in, click OK, and then closet the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.

For more details, you may refer to the article. Hope the above information is helpful for you!

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