Remove pre-installed office 365 and install 2016 manually

[rajuegypt]

Dear Pros,

Please assist me in removing OEM Office 365 from Dell XPS 9570.

I uninstalled office 365 (30 days ) demo and routinely went ahead installing Office standard 2016 (genuine license - Volume License)

I activated the Office 2016 standard and everything looked fine and then suddenly I find " Please activate your product". I did the activation and then this process looped again. I followed the steps to uninstall by downloading the tool (fix-tool) and then did the whole process again. Now when I update the system I find office updates have been downloaded and then again again activation mode starts again.

Damn, I have seen complicated issues i my career but this stupid cycle of activation drama makes my job funny as this simple thing cannot be resolved. Please Please HELP

Thanks in advance.

[DailyLlama]

Assuming you’re using Windows 10, run this powershell script:

Write-Host "Removing Apps..." -ForegroundColor Green
    Write-Host ""
    
    # Create array to hold list of apps to remove
    $appname = @(
        
 "*Microsoft.Desktop.Access*"
 "*Microsoft.Desktop.Excel*"
 "*Microsoft.Desktop.Outlook*"
 "*Microsoft.Desktop.Word*"
 "*Microsoft.Desktop.PowerPoint*"
 "*Microsoft.Desktop.Publisher*"
 "*Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub*"
 "*Microsoft.Office.OneNote*"
 "*Microsoft.Office.Sway*"
 "*Office.Desktop*"
    )
    # Remove apps from current user
    ForEach($app in $appname){
    Get-AppxPackage -Name $app | Remove-AppxPackage -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    }
    # Remove apps from all users - may need to reboot after running above and run this again
    ForEach($app in $appname){
    Get-AppxPackage -Allusers -Name $app | Remove-AppxPackage -Allusers -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    }
    # Remove apps from provisioned apps list so they don't reinstall on new users
    ForEach($app in $appname){
    Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where {$_.PackageName -like $app} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    }

It’ll remove Office from all users, and from the machine so it won’t reinstall every time a new user logs in.

[adrian_ych]

I think this is the un-installation or removal of the Dell Trial version and not the Win10 “get office”

• You need to get to windows settings and under app to remove the M$ Office 365 then reboot.

OR

• Goto control panel (view large icons) and click on “programs & features”… remove the M$ Office 365 then reboot

[rajuegypt]

Hi Adrian,

Initially I actually did not find under apps neither program & features. So I went ahead and installed my genuine offline installer, activated it.

Damn thing gets updated and again gets me activation window

Help Me Buddy.

[oxicas]

Use this Office 365 uninstall fix → Uninstall Office from a PC - Microsoft Support

[rajuegypt]

Hi Oxicas,

THANKYOU. I did this at initial stage before posting in spicework community. I also contacted dell for support they advised me to make a clean install using dell utility to get rid of that stubborn Office 365 occurrence after updating with our VL office license.

Hope this minor issue does not bug anyone here. Damn.

Thanks for all the support.