Removing Office from Macs

Funny you should mention this.
On 1/20/11 4:38 PM, "Michael D Conners" <MConners at matcmadison.edu> wrote:

I've been researching ideas for removing Office for Mac since the
uninstaller in 2008 can't be scripted and 2011 has no uninstaller. The
nicest solution I've found is to use InstallEase from LANrev
<http://www.lanrev.com/nc/product/download-installease.html>.

InstallEase is free but does require registration. It's similar to
Composer in that it can create a snapshot package or you can manually
create a package.

It has one additional feature, though, which is really nice. You can tell
it to uninstall the files you've added to it. For Office 2008 you can drag
into InstallEase:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008 /Library/Application Support/Microsoft /Library/Automator/Office* /Library/Automator/Entourage* /Library/Automator/Excel* /Library/Automator/PowerPoint* /Library/Automator/*Word* /Library/Fonts/Microsoft /Library/Receipts/Office*

I may have missed one or two small items but this includes the essentials.

When you go to compile the package, select "Uninstaller package for Apple
Installer (.pkg)" and you'll have a quick and easy uninstaller in a few
seconds. It's essentially just a package with an empty payload and a
postflight script.

This would make a nice feature request for Composer. (Yes, Bcc'ed JAMF
Support!)

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

Thank you William.

I am looking into this as I am typing this reply.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Mick

Why not just use the JSS to uninstall? As long as you index a dmg you created, you can choose the option to uninstall it. Then just have a policy that removes office 2008?

Allen

That's the ideal solution for compiled .dmg packages that an administrator
On 1/20/11 5:09 PM, "GolbigA at mskcc.org" <GolbigA at mskcc.org> wrote:
has created himself.

However, if Michael has done like I have, he's just thrown the .mpkg file
plus the subsequent updater files directly into Casper Admin. Indexing
does work on Apple Installer packages but the original index may be out of
sync after applying the updates. Plus, I'm leery that some companies may
include postflight scripts that move or rename files, which indexing won't
see.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

I have used this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768 to remove Office 2011 and this to remove Office 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323675/en-us

Hope those help!

Steve Flanagan
Infrastructure Engineer
Collaboration and DeskSide Services

Level 3 Communications
Office 720.888.3088

Hi

I need to remove Outlook 2011 before rolling out an Outook 2011 sp2 in Casper. This is because some machines have been updated to different versions. I have found an apple script that can remove it for me. But i would like to automate it complete process.

I have also tired using the shell script from this web site http://www.officeformachelp.com/office/install/remove-office/ but that doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas how I can get this working?

Many thanks

As

If your Office 2011 installs are a mix of anything 14.1.0 or higher then the current 14.2.2 update will update them all.

What's not working with the shell script?