Install Office 365 then remove old Office Versions 7 days later
Morning Ninjas,
We are looking to rollout Office 365 to our users and looking for the most intrusive way to do it. We think installing O365 and then giving them 7 days to move across before removing Office 2013 will be the best way. I was wondering if anyone has been able to create this with O365 or any other software whereby i might be able to use the code to create this.
Basically looking for:
- Install software
- Check each day to see if 7 days as past since software was installed
- Remove old software
Thank you for your help in advance.
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wizzo
6 years ago
Hi,
as far as I know you can´t have 2 different versions of office installed in parallel without tweaking the system. There is no difference between office 2k13 and o365 V2k13. Same thing just the install method and patching is different. If you are going for o365 2k16 it looks a little different but nothing which would confuse the user. So I personally believe you would create way more issues tweaking the systems to have 2 versions of office installed as going directly to the latest version.
Then have a custom inventory rule to look for that file.
Then have a smart label to see if a PC has that custom inventory rule applied to it.
Then have a script run each day to remove older versions of office from all PCs with that smart label, and also delete that dummy file. (this should stop the PC from recreating the dummy file, get readded to the custom inventory rule and not attempt to uninstall older versions of office again.)
A bit of work and hopefully someone has done what you are looking for that requires less chaining to get it done. - DaveMT 6 years ago