Hi,

I'm looking to remove all users profiles from Outlook, we are migrating from on prem to cloud, so I need these removed so that when the re-open Outlook autodiscover will do it's thing. it's working manually, but would love to script it for users.

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The local profiles are stored in

~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/

Is that what you're looking to delete? The entire UBF8T346G9.Office directory? Or something more specific inside that?

If you want to delete the entire thing, then yes, it can be scripted. Something like the following should work, though this has not really been tested since I don't want to delete my Office 2016 folder, so be careful with it. Test only on a test machine to start with. There may be somewhat better ways to do this also.

#!/bin/bash



while read USER; do

    if [ -d "${USER}/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office" ]; then

        echo "Found Office 2016 container for $USER. Deleting..."

        rm -Rf "${USER}/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office"

    else

        echo "Did not find Office 2016 container for $USER"

    fi

done < <(find /Users -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 | egrep -v "_mbsetupuser|Shared")

I will give that a try! I'm just looking to have the users profiles deleted, so it sounds like that could work for me

I am currently using the below for full Office 2016 removal which could be modified to only cover the user data removal /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers

#!/bin/bash



# commands out of the official guide from microsoft

# source https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Uninstall-Office-2016-for-Mac-eefa1199-5b58-43af-8a3d-b73dc1a8cae3

# and https://gist.github.com/pirafrank/18d62c062e2806c1d183



USERNAME=$(ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}')



rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app"

rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft OneNote.app"

rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app"

rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft PowerPoint.app"

rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app"





rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.errorreporting

rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Excel

rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.netlib.shipassertprocess

rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2

rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Outlook

rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Powerpoint

rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rm -rfS-XPCService

rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word

rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.onenote.mac



rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.ms"

rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office"

rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OfficeOsfWebHost"



# further cleaning



rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0"

rm -rf "/Library/Fonts/Microsoft"

rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Excel.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.outlook.databasedaemon.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.outlook.office_reminders.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Outlook.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.PowerPoint.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist

rm -rf /Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.microsoft

rm -rf /Library/Receipts/Office2016_*

rm -rf /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

rm -rf /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper



pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Fonts

pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_AutoUpdate.app

pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_Excel.app

pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_OneNote.app

pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_Outlook.app

pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_PowerPoint.app

pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_Word.app

pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Proofing_Tools

pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.licensing

Also believe the below one was obtained from Office 2016 team on macadmin slack channel

#!/bin/bash



USERNAME=$(ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}')



if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then

    echo -e "

    ROOT PRIVILEDGES NEEDED!

    You have to run this script as root.

    Aborting...

    "

    exit 1

else

    echo -e "

    ###################################

      Office 2016 for Mac uninstaller

    ###################################

    "



    sleep 4



    echo -e "

    ------------- WARNING -------------

      Your Outlook data will be wiped.

     Press CTRL+C in 5 seconds to ABORT

    -----------------------------------

    "



    sleep 6



    # commands out of the official guide from microsoft

    # source https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Uninstall-Office-2016-for-Mac-eefa1199-5b58-43af-8a3d-b73dc1a8cae3



    echo "    Removing Office 2016 apps..."

    rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app"

    rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft OneNote.app"

    rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app"

    rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft PowerPoint.app"

    rm -rf "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app"



    echo "    Cleaning ~/Library..."

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.errorreporting

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Excel

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.netlib.shipassertprocess

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Outlook

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Powerpoint

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rm -rfS-XPCService

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word

    rm -rf /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.onenote.mac



    rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.ms"

    rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office"

    rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OfficeOsfWebHost"



    # further cleaning



    echo "    Cleaning system folders..."

    rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0"

    rm -rf "/Library/Fonts/Microsoft"

    rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

    rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Excel.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.outlook.databasedaemon.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.outlook.office_reminders.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Outlook.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.PowerPoint.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist

    rm -rf /Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.microsoft

    rm -rf /Library/Receipts/Office2016_*

    rm -rf /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

    rm -rf /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper



    echo "    Making your Mac forget about Office 2016..."

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Fonts

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_AutoUpdate.app

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_Excel.app

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_OneNote.app

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_Outlook.app

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_PowerPoint.app

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Microsoft_Word.app

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.Proofing_Tools

    pkgutil --forget com.microsoft.package.licensing



    echo -e "

    Complete!

    Please Note: You may need to reinstall Microsoft Silverlight.

    You can now remove icons from Dock (if any!).

    "

fi

Thanks @sbirdsley , @mm2270 , I will try these out and see what works, much appreciated!

I'm pretty inexperienced with this - but I'm trying to run:

!/bin/bash

USERNAME=$(ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}')

rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.ms"
rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office"
rm -rf "/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OfficeOsfWebHost"

just to nuke those folders from existence. it doesn't seem to work though when I run it. Am I missing something stupid? Don't I have to "close it out" somehow? I'm getting an unexpected EOF error.

@sbirdsley @Macmacmark hey, just curious, how is this office 2016 uninstall working? which one are you using or have used?

!/bin/bash

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