MS Office install advice

[mrstrong]

Hi,

 

Just got a new windows 10 PC from Stone and (as I don't have an up to date windows 10 image)

I decided to just let it boot up.

 

It came up ok (Windows 10 Pro Education version 1803)

 

I noticed it comes with "office already installed"

Just wants you to login to office 365 which is ok I guess as teachers have office 365 accounts.

 

I can see the winword.exe is running from

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Office.Desktop.Word_16040.11001.20108.0_x86__char-string\Office16

 

Is this some kind of "click to run" version ? It did start up pretty much instantly and performance seems fine.

 

So, I'm tempted to just leave this PC as is! Does that sound ok?

 

 

I used to have a very light image and would then manually install the standalone office 2016 professional plus

with a volume license key.

 

I'm thinking if I did need to install office 2016 professional plus I'd need to remove the current version

on this stone PC but then I seem to remember windows 10 can be a pain when new users login

and apps come back etc!

 

Is there any easy way to remove this version of office e.g. a standard powershell script?

 

Any advice much appreciated

 

Thanks

[Mujja]

There shouldn't be an issue with Provisioned Apps returning once removed, this was fixed in a release of Windows 10, maybe 1803.

 

To remove for all users

 

Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename XYZ

 

 

To remove for the current

 

Remove-AppxPackage XYZ

 

 

A Click-to-Run install of Office 365 / 2019 installs in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office, this seems like a UWP application but I can't find anything in the Microsoft Store.

[Arthur]

I can see the winword.exe is running from

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Office.Desktop.Word_16040.11001.20108.0_x86__char-string\Office16

This is the UWP version which Microsoft are discontinuing...

 

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/microsoft-suspends-development-of-touch-friendly-office-apps-for-windows

[Arthur]

It came up ok (Windows 10 Pro Education version 1803)

If you are licensed for Window 10 Education I would reinstall Windows from scratch. The Pro Education version is missing some useful features.

[Mujja]

This is the UWP version which Microsoft are discontinuing...

 

Was this available through the Microsoft Store which Stone added to their image or was this pre-installed for 1803 Pro Education?

 

I've looked in the Store and all apps take me to the office.com website.

 

 

After reading the OP searched for the UWP versions and also noticed the UWP versions will no longer be updated, they were only announced in Jan !!!

[Arthur]

I've looked in the Store and all apps take me to the office.com website.

These were the apps I was thinking of...

 

https://products.office.com/en-us/mobile/office-mobile-apps-for-windows

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/word-mobile/9wzdncrfjb9s

 

The have a different PackageName to the one you mentioned though.

 

Microsoft.Office.Word_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Edited December 3, 2018 by Arthur

[mrstrong]

Thanks,

 

Just a bit more info: a search for word in the start menu comes up as "Word Trusted Microsoft Store app"

and under file account we have

 

See also output from powershell Get-AppxPackage -name *office*

https://hastebin.com/ufudowugiz.php

 

From what you are saying though sounds like I'm best to uninstall this and put the msi version on.

 

Is it really as simple as ?

Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename XYZ

 

Guess I will need to do this for all three e.g.Microsoft.Office.Desktop, Microsoft.Office.OneNote and

Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub ?

 

Not really been keeping up with windows 10 / office dev as had my head in chromebooks.

 

If you are licensed for Window 10 Education I would reinstall Windows from scratch. The Pro Education version is missing some useful features.

 

Interesting, please say some more.

[mrstrong]

Think I figured out how to remove all office store apps:

 

Tried

 

# remove office apps from existing accounts (DID NOT FULLY WORK: SEE BELOW)
Get-appxpackage -allusers *office* | Remove-AppxPackage

# stop office apps being installed for any new accounts created later
Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like "*office*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online

 

But found needed an extra kick as the first command didn't remove for all existing accounts

 

# remove office apps from existing accounts
Get-appxpackage -allusers *office* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

[Brendan0808]

I had exactly the same issue and used the Powershell script below to remove Office for all users

 

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -online | %{if ($_.packagename -match "Microsoft.Office.Desktop") {$_ | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -AllUsers}}