Office 2019 uninstall some applications

2019-02-12

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_{Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:29 PM}

I just deployed our first instance of Office 2019. Looking in Add/Remove programs I see three applications installed. I was able to uninstall two of those. However, I also need to uninstall One Drive and Access. How do I do this?

On previous versions of Office I could go to add/remove and select Office. Then click on Change. This opened a dialog to select what applications I want and do not want. It seems Office 2019 did not include this feature.

Thanks in advance for your time and efforts.

The installer was very complicated (for a normal consumer) and required an .xml file. I much prefer the old way better using an .iso file to burn a disk. Why did such an easy task get so confounded and complex? What is the easy way to install Office 2019?

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_{Wednesday, February 13, 2019 2:56 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

There is no add/remove features for Office 2019 in Control Panel. If you want to block Access app in Office 2019, we can use the configuration.xml file to exclude Access app. For example:

Additionally, we can also use the Office Customization Tool to create the configuration files that are used to deploy Office in large organizations. These configuration files give you more control over an Office installation: you can define which applications and languages are installed, how those applications should be updated, and application preferences. For example:

Also hope the following article is helpful to you:
/en-us/DeployOffice/overview-of-the-office-customization-tool-for-click-to-run

Best Regards,
Winnie Liang

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_{Wednesday, February 13, 2019 2:51 PM}

Thank you for the solution. I fail to understand how this new method is supposed to make life easier for general consumers. For IT workers, it adds job security, which I do appreciate!!! To my knowledge the old method was not broken and was quite intuitive. It did not require knowledge of the secret hand shake.

Thanks again. KA

_{Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:14 PM}

Winnie,

Can you explain these lines I found in a similar file provided to me by MS:

Or better yet, provide a link to the complete instructions for scripting this automation? That would be excellent to have for future reference. Thanks in advance for your assistance. KA

_{Thursday, February 14, 2019 5:26 AM}

Winnie,

Can you explain these lines I found in a similar file provided to me by MS:

    <RemoveMSI All="True" />

    <Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />

   <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />

Or better yet, provide a link to the complete instructions for scripting this automation? That would be excellent to have for future reference. Thanks in advance for your assistance. KA

RemoveMSI element specifies whether any 2010, 2013, or 2016 versions of Office, Visio, and Project that were installed using Windows Installer (MSI) are uninstalled from the computer prior to the installation of the specified product, such as Office 2019. So <RemoveMSI All="True" /> means uninstall any MSI version of Office, Visio, Project when deploying Office 2019.

Display element defines what the user sees when Office is installed. When Level is set to Full, Office is installed with the normal installation experience such as process bars, completion screens, error messages and other user interface.

If AcceptEULA is set to TRUE, the user does not see a Microsoft Software License Terms dialog box. Set AUTOACTIVATE to 1 to have the product activate automatically.

For more information about these properties settings, please refer to Configuration options for the Office Deployment Tool.

Best Regards,
Winnie Liang

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_{Thursday, February 14, 2019 1:26 PM}

Thanks. I hope Skype is the reserved word to remove Skype for Business. I'll give the tool a try.

_{Thursday, August 6, 2020 6:23 PM}

I heard once that when you see someone do something really stupid you need to realize someone else will do something even dumber. I have to remind myself of this each time Microsoft comes out with something new, because they will do something even dumber in the future. The Office 2019 install has displaced the last "dumbest thing Microsoft has ever done".

Thanks for the job security Microsoft.

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