Uninstalling Skype Lync for Business

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Hey guys.

Is there a way to make a task to remove this from Office 2013/16. It comes with the dl package on 365. Everything i have checked points to no but wondering if someone was ever able to successfully?

Thanks!

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Can you remove it from Control Panel?

Bill

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Nope. It either uninstalls Office 365 as a whole or nothing.

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You can add/remove Office features by way of an configuration XML and running the setup.exe. This works on removing Lync/Skype For Business from Office 2013 that has the feature already installed.

Create the XML as below saved as RemoveSkypeForBusiness.xml into C:\TEMP then run

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE15\Office Setup Controller\setup.exe" /config c:\temp\RemoveSkypeForBusiness.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
    <Display AcceptEula="yes" SuppressModal="no" CompletionNotice="yes" Level="basic"/>
    <OptionState Children="force" State="Absent" Id="LyncCoreFiles"/>
</Configuration>

It should be easy enough to do this in a fixlet action. You can change the XML to make it silent if you prefer

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
    <Display AcceptEula="yes" SuppressModal="yes" CompletionNotice="no" Level="none"/>
    <OptionState Children="force" State="Absent" Id="LyncCoreFiles"/>
</Configuration>

Regs
Rob

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