Windows 10 Professional Preloaded Apps

For multiple devices? In an enterprise?

Use LTSB edition.

Otherwise, there are millions of tutorials on this.

I use this ...  

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/downloading-10appsmanager

Office itself is not an App but rather an application that lives in Programs and Features. It can be removed there.

What other Office app are you talking about?

You can get a volume license for Office. That is how we license Office at clients.

Are these Dell machines?   Dell apparently installed Office in pieces so you have to uninstall all the pieces.

That is absolutely the wrong way to install Office Click to Run as that should be one single uninstall in Programs and Features.

@ John,  these preloaded click to run apps don't show up in programs.  You have to go into apps/features to remove these for every new profile.  You can use powershell to remove these as provisioned apps before, but I understand it's a bit more difficult once the profile is created.

Joel

Call the manufacturer and ask for help. They have done it incorrectly.

@ John,   I don't believe this are installed by the manufacture which in this case is Dell.   These " Store " apps are preloaded with windows and are quite different than what you'll find in Windows 7 ……      

Although I'm no expert this page explains it a bit  ...https://4sysops.com/archives/remove-provisioned-built-in-apps-in-windows-10/

Joel

What Office Apps exactly are you referring to?  Office itself is not installed by Windows.

Windows Mail (not Outlook) comes with Windows.
One Note Cloud (not Office 2016 One Note) comes with Windows.

That is all I know of.

@ John,

Did you have a chance to browse the link I shared ?  I think this will help to understand a lot.   Microsoft Office Desktop Apps come pre-installed as click to run apps in Windows 10 pro …

Office Click to Run (I have it) is a licensed (and paid) application on top of Windows. It does not come preinstalled except from a manufacturer.  

Yes I did look at that link and saw the removal for provisioned apps, but that did not include Office the paid product.

@ John,

The device we are working with has a clean installation of Windows 10 professional on it.   Part of that image includes Office 2016 Standard which I installed on the image.    There are problems with that application because of the following which is installed on the computer with Windows 10 pro.  

If I right click on the start menu and choose settings , apps ,  Apps & Features you'll " Microsoft Office Desktop Apps ".   Until I uninstall this there are conflicts between both version that are on the device.  The one I installed and those that come with the " Microsoft Office Desktop Apps" I've referenced.

From my reading I understand these to be either provisioned or installed apps however I'm confused at this point.     I know that when I click on the start menu I see for example a Outlook icon as well as an Outlook 2016 icon .    When I uninstall the " Microsoft Office Desktop Apps " the Outlook icon goes away and so do my troubles …..

Joel

Where did you get the image?

We buy OEM without Office - it is not there.
We buy Windows 10 Licenses (and we download the ISO) for use on an existing computer and Office is not there.

So did the Windows image come from a third party?

When you look for office on 10,  where are you looking ?

Before loading Office, there is nothing. (Windows Mail, Windows One Note, otherwise nothing). Start, Alpha list on the left or Start Menu and nothing there).

We then install Office Professional at clients. I purchase a license for Office Click to run and Install it here on my OEM Windows Computer.

This computer here (my consulting ThinkPad) had some damage in the OS that caused a problem that a Repair finally failed to fix.

So within the last 4 months, I elected the option Keep Data, do not keep Apps.  Windows 10 redownloaded fresh and there was no Office. I had to install it (I am licensed) to get mail working.

When you go into Apps @ Features are you seeing " Microsoft Office Desktop Apps " ….     not found under Programs & Features ….

Joel

Then you purchased or obtained a license that includes Office. That is a way but not the standard way to get a a Windows license.

This is what I'm dealing with John,   The instructions given here are for single user removal. I need to know how to remove for all current and future profiles.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2147260-how-to-uninstall-office-365-preloaded-in-windows-10

Even looking in the Microsoft Store I cannot find Office loaded onto Windows Pro

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/windows-10-pro/df77x4d43rkt/48DN?icid=PDP-Windows10Home-buybox-upsell_Windows10Pro-en_CA

That part I understand but image must have come from a manufacturer or third party. It was not (so far as I can see) purchased directly from Microsoft

Regardless of where it came from I'm needing to know how to remove it on desktops that have been deployed with at least one user profile setup

OK so that circles back to my first point. Go to the vendor where you purchased Windows and tell them you need Windows without Office.

You cannot say "regardless" because we purchase a lot of Windows 10 and none of it comes with Office.

The remaining question is how to remove the pre-installed software from the existing pc's ….  I'm not going to reimage 80 computers that are in production just to remove this software that can be removed some other way.

Thanks for your help ...

The link you posted showed a Powershell command to remove software. That is how I would do it (and have done for non-Office apps). Did you try that?

The other thing you should be able to do is contact the seller of the image and ask "How do I completely remove Office from this image?"

Ultimately this is the powershell command that I ran to remove the " Microsoft Office Desktop Apps " from the windows installation.  This can be used to remove other apps in the MS Store as well with a few modifications …..   you can also reference this link and find many others on the web that might help …..  

https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/windows-10s-next-release-will-let-you-uninstall-more-built-in-apps/

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