Office 365 update has installed extra software (access / publisher etc...)

[Freefaller]

Hi all,

I have an office 365 family licence, and I installed it with a configuration xml to exclude access and publisher. Office updated recently and re-installed access and publisher!

Because it's click to run there's no individual elements I can remove - I wonder if there's any trick that you guys know of that can help with removing some of the individual elements? I can't seem to find anything that helps.

I'm going to try installing again using an offline installer - but I fear as soon as I run the update it'll just install all the extra gubbins!

cheers guys

 

[Freefaller]

If you grab the installer, run it and select 'custom', does it allow you to de-select the ones you don't want and then remove them?

No unfortunately there is no custom option. Click to run removes that completely.

Because it's a "click to run" you have to use the configuration xml file which I did. However the update installed at the stuff I removed from the configuration file!

The other option is not updating office, but that's often not wise!

 

[Freefaller]

I spoke to MS it seems you install it all or nothing. Ah well it doesn't take too much space.

Just seems daft to install stuff you don't need. I don't even know what publisher does!

 

[Freefaller]

Sadly increasingly the way MS is going with software and people largely just accept it

(Some even defend it - I have no idea why unless they work for MS).

Ah fair enough. Part of me wonders if I should have kept my 2016 versions, but I got a cheap upgrade last year for 365 and could use it with 6 computers across the home which makes life a little easier.

Adobe is even worse. You'd have thought for SaaS things would get cheaper not more expensive?!

 

[Freefaller]

I guess you're right. It must just be a licence based thing. MS have all but confirmed it. In the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal. I guess it's an old habit of just installing the bare minimum I need.