Silently uninstall office 2003

I wrote a script to automate the process of uninstalling Office and installing Office My company is going to push this script to run on every computer in the company. However, I have a few concerns and known issues with the script that we need resolved. The script first uninstalls office and waits for the uninstallation to finish.

My method to determine if the uninstallation is finished is to verify that the msiexec. If there is most 1 msiexec. The issues: On some computers, the computer will restart after Office is removed. The script needs to check to see if Office is already installed before running the installation since some of our users already have Office This can be configured to be completely silent or allow prompts 'to inform its progress. Shell" wshell. The uninstall will now be done silently.

No interruption. It is very important in this step because it actually tells the installer to remove the software completely. If you are that lucky guy who has Deployment Server in place, you can do this remotely. No walking to all machines. Just push the command and it will work. Now we have to install Office Again we can do this by taking the cd to all clients, but the better and easiest way is to do this by a script.

We also can leave Office where it is. Don't uninstall it, just upgrade it to Office Again the fastest method is to use a script for this one. For all installation scripts you first have to build an Office. Be aware that in an upgrade several files of Office will stay on your machine and that you always have to make sure they are patched also. Just build a clean and lean package of Office. Use Wise Virtual packager editor if available. Office is one of these packages that is best build by Wise and not with SVSadmin.

You can do this again by placing it on a share and create a net use mapping to it, to import it. Make sure you delete the shortcuts to the Office , because it will stay on the system, and can be available to your users. On the other hand, users will love being able to use Office when they wish because Office is slightly different. Migration User Mar 19, AM. What you said is true. But in case you want to uninstall Office alone [not upgrading to ], the above script will do it for you.

While creating a patch [MSP] for Office installation, you have an option to uninstall previous versions if exists. This takes care fo uninstalling Office First of all, download FixIt from the official Microsoft website for those Office and Windows versions you are using in your infrastructure. In the following table I have collected the links to Microsoft packages to uninstall different Office versions in different OS versions. Unpack only VBS files from the downloaded diagcab archives.

In order the Office uninstallation script to work correctly on Windows x64 if run by the bit Configuration Manager client, you should run the corresponding cscript. So to run the scenarios on a bit system, you need to run cscript. You can download a ready-to-use archive with all necessary files from our website: OfficeRemova-OffScrubl. The command to manually start the script for the complete removal of Office components from the computer looks like this:. With certain modifications, it can be used in the scenarios of automatic Office removal.

June 5th It worked fine for me on a residual Office 32 bit installation that did not let me install the 64 bit version. Thank you very much. Can you send me instructions? Be very careful who you give your money to. I just got a hand-me-down laptop from a family member. They had Microsoft Office installed. I tried to uninstall it and install the version. However, the different service packs confused me and I wasn't sure what to download. How can I reinstall my version? And if I do, do I have to pay for it?

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