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Avoiding Microsoft Defender Portion of Office Install

  • September 15, 2023
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Microsoft Defender has been added to the Mac Office 365 installer as of v.16.77.

I do not want this being installed and sticking with an older installer for now.

 

Has anyone successfully excluded it as part of the Office installation process?  The “push out the 'InstallDefender' managed preference” did not give much info to go on.

Thank you.

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tonyyoung2
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  • September 15, 2023

If you push out a configuration for com.microsoft.office with the following key preference, you should be fine. This change only affects when you deploying the full Office Suite Installer.

<key>InstallDefender</key> <false/>

 See: https://macadmins.software/shim/ for more info.


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  • September 19, 2023

Thank you.