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Office 2013 uninstall
OK, so this is a bit convoluted. I need to find a way to rip out Office 2013 Pro Plus Trial completely from a bunch of PCs.
Here's the history:
- Installed Office 2013 Pro Plus 64 bit Trial
- Accounting Application needed 32 bit verion of Outlook so....
- Installed Office 2013 Pro Plus 32 bit Trial
- Everything works
- Don't need Pro Plus so order Home and Business
- Uninstall Pro Plus
- Install Home and Business
- All seems to work until.....
- Accounting application will not email -- mapi32.dll not found etc.
- Look at the Office Home and Business info and find that part of Office thinks it is an activated version of Office Home and Business, but if you look at "more" details it states that I have an unactivated version of Office Pro Plus.
- Thought "Gee, maybe if I reinstall Office Home and Business it will straighten itself out." - So.... reinstalled Office Home and Business through the Control Panel, I now have no mention of Office Home and Business but only an unactivated version of Office Pro Plus Trial!!!!!!!!!!
wtf!!!!!!!!
Sigh......I have about fifteen of these PCs -- too many to want to re-do by hand, but not enough to attempt to create and test a script or GPO.
At any rate, has anyone else had this or similar issue and found a resolution to completely uninstalling Office Pro Plus Trial so that the new install of a different version of Office actually installs correctly?
Here's the history:
- Installed Office 2013 Pro Plus 64 bit Trial
- Accounting Application needed 32 bit verion of Outlook so....
- Installed Office 2013 Pro Plus 32 bit Trial
- Everything works
- Don't need Pro Plus so order Home and Business
- Uninstall Pro Plus
- Install Home and Business
- All seems to work until.....
- Accounting application will not email -- mapi32.dll not found etc.
- Look at the Office Home and Business info and find that part of Office thinks it is an activated version of Office Home and Business, but if you look at "more" details it states that I have an unactivated version of Office Pro Plus.
- Thought "Gee, maybe if I reinstall Office Home and Business it will straighten itself out." - So.... reinstalled Office Home and Business through the Control Panel, I now have no mention of Office Home and Business but only an unactivated version of Office Pro Plus Trial!!!!!!!!!!
wtf!!!!!!!!
Sigh......I have about fifteen of these PCs -- too many to want to re-do by hand, but not enough to attempt to create and test a script or GPO.
At any rate, has anyone else had this or similar issue and found a resolution to completely uninstalling Office Pro Plus Trial so that the new install of a different version of Office actually installs correctly?
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Notes as I follow the MS KB:
- From the Installer folder, Office Professional Pro will not uninstall. Goes through all the motions and dialog boxes but does not unistall.
- All other "Office <product name>" go through the uninstall successfully.
- This is a fresh PC with Win7 but there are lots of MS products like Outlook and Access etc that are clearly part of an Office installation but which are not labeled "Office" so I did not uninstall them.
- Under Program Files(x86)\Common I find an Office14 folder !!! That is an Office 2010 folder !!! Office 2010 has never been on this PC!! I left it alone.
- Under the Reg Key for Uninstall, there were many entries that were Office and many that were Office15. I deleted both types of entries.
- When deleting reg entries with the specific Data value "file_name path\Office Setup Controller\Setup.exe path" I ran across a key called Office15.PROPLUSR. I deleted the entire key despite the fact the KB did not mention the key.
- I finish all of the steps
- Reboot the machine
- go to the Click to Run email with the download URL embedded for all my product codes (electronic distribution of licenses if you're not familliar with the email)
- Login to my account
- choose the software license that is applicable to the PC I'm working on
- Start the download of the install
- GET THIS!!! A dialog box pops up and says "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013"
- I then get a dialog box that saying the installation cannot continue until it can find the resource it is looking for -- it is looking in C:\MSOCache\
- GET THIS!!! Now EVERYTIME I start up IE, Office Pro Plus attempts to install!
OK, I figure out the last two entries. The download from my licensing account is stuck and will not download (???!!) but somewhere, IE is deciding that when I open it up, I am really attempting to install Office Pro Plus 2013 (wtf?)
- This is really fubar even by MS standards.
Gotta back off and decide upon the next step. I figure it will likely be MSPS
- From the Installer folder, Office Professional Pro will not uninstall. Goes through all the motions and dialog boxes but does not unistall.
- All other "Office <product name>" go through the uninstall successfully.
- This is a fresh PC with Win7 but there are lots of MS products like Outlook and Access etc that are clearly part of an Office installation but which are not labeled "Office" so I did not uninstall them.
- Under Program Files(x86)\Common I find an Office14 folder !!! That is an Office 2010 folder !!! Office 2010 has never been on this PC!! I left it alone.
- Under the Reg Key for Uninstall, there were many entries that were Office and many that were Office15. I deleted both types of entries.
- When deleting reg entries with the specific Data value "file_name path\Office Setup Controller\Setup.exe path" I ran across a key called Office15.PROPLUSR. I deleted the entire key despite the fact the KB did not mention the key.
- I finish all of the steps
- Reboot the machine
- go to the Click to Run email with the download URL embedded for all my product codes (electronic distribution of licenses if you're not familliar with the email)
- Login to my account
- choose the software license that is applicable to the PC I'm working on
- Start the download of the install
- GET THIS!!! A dialog box pops up and says "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013"
- I then get a dialog box that saying the installation cannot continue until it can find the resource it is looking for -- it is looking in C:\MSOCache\
- GET THIS!!! Now EVERYTIME I start up IE, Office Pro Plus attempts to install!
OK, I figure out the last two entries. The download from my licensing account is stuck and will not download (???!!) but somewhere, IE is deciding that when I open it up, I am really attempting to install Office Pro Plus 2013 (wtf?)
- This is really fubar even by MS standards.
Gotta back off and decide upon the next step. I figure it will likely be MSPS
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Thanks terencio;
I use Jv16 as a reg cleaner and that did not help.
I've submitted to MSPS and will see what they have to offer.
I use Jv16 as a reg cleaner and that did not help.
I've submitted to MSPS and will see what they have to offer.
Good luck, post here if you get anything that works!
...Terry
...Terry
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There is no solution. Thanks for all the replies. I finally nuked the PCs and actually rebuilt starting with a fresh install of the OS.
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Just to be clear for readers, this was a CD installation of Pro Plus Trial, and then a Click-to-run installation of Home and Business.
I have one of the offending PCs on a VM so I can try different ideas rather easily.
I will allow at least one of the Trial versions to expire and see what happens then. (Remember that each Office install is reporting that it is both an activated version of Home and Business as well as an un-activated version of Pro Plus Trial. The Pro Plus Trial has only a few days of life left.)
If I find anything of interest, I'll post back here.