Our environment consists of Windows 10 1909 Enterprise workstations running Office 365. We are transitioning to Teams and I am trying to uninstall Skype for Business. Eventually I will deploy a script using SCCM for the removal but right now I am testing.
According to this site my product ID is SkypeforBusinessRetail:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/troubleshoot/installation/product-ids-supported-office-deployment-click-to-run
I have downloaded the Office Deployment Tool and I have created an .XML file called RemoveSkype.xml for removal that looks like this:
<Configuration>
<Remove>
<Product ID="SkypeforBusinessRetail">
</Product>
</Remove>
</Configuration>
I kill the skype task using: taskkill /f /im lync.exe and I see Skype close and the task disappear
I run the command line for the office deployment tool using the above XML:
setup.exe /configure RemoveSkype.xml
I see the Office Deployment tool run successfully, it recommends a reboot.
I reboot, Skype for Business is still installed.
What am I doing wrong?
