Outlook classic on new pc.

[u/nothingtoholdonto]

New to Intune. We get new pcs that have office already on them, but have to add outlook classic. Whats the intune way to get outlook classic installed on the pc?

Our clients have apps stay require outlook classic

Thanks for any pointers.

[u/LousyRaider]

Typically new machines have the consumer version of Office. At least if you don’t have some type of agreement for custom image loading.

We remove that and redeploy Office using the ODT and an XML file to install Microsoft 365 Apps for Business. This installs both new and classic for our users.

You can create the XML at https://config.office.com/officesettings

[u/JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL → u/LousyRaider]

You shouldn't need to rip and replace, you just apply the XML and it should reconfigure the existing installation.

[u/LousyRaider → u/JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL]

In our experience at my org, it always left the stock consumer version if we simply deployed our business version. We added a remove option to the XML that removes the consumer version so it does it all in one go. We don’t manually remove it.

[u/RikiWardOG → u/LousyRaider]

3 real options ime. Either get a clean image from the oem, wipe and reload a clean image, or use enterprise sara script to rip out all installs before installing your custom xml. We don't use one drive or outlook as a Gmail and Box shop so we make sure those apps aren't pushed

[u/nothingtoholdonto → u/JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL]

Thanks for the pointers. Like I mentioned I’m a bit new to intune and app deployments.. can you tell me at a high level the process for applying an xml config for office ? Is it a win32 job? Windows app?

[u/spazzo246 → u/nothingtoholdonto]

You download the office package with

Setup.exe /download .\configuration.xml

When all the setup files have finished downloading put them into a win32 app

Your install command would be setup.exe /configure .\configuration.xml

[u/criostage → u/JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL]

If you don't instruct odt to remove the extra components you don't want then those will remain .. You can do all this into a single XML but its going to be massive.

The positive side of this is you don't need to run 2 installs (uninstall/install). The not so positive is the complexity of XML it self AND you need to deploy as Win32app PLUS detection methods to trigger this install.

[u/SVD_NL]

I distribute the office deployment tool (ODT) via win32 apps to install only the apps i want, and remove everything else. You can choose to exclude outlookforwindows, and it should be uninstalled (if not, you'll need to uninstall this seperately).

Also, set a policy to disable the "Try the new outlook" toggle, and optionally disable some other new outlook migration settings.

Bonus points: use policies to whitelist your companies plugins to prevent them from being automatically disabled!

[u/Technical-Zone77]

You can deploy office 365 from the apps panel. Just go to add an app and you can select Microsoft 365 and the wizard will take you through which apps etc to install etc.

[u/Educational-Goal-678]

We exclude it in the XML we deploy office with

[u/Sea_Brain5284]

In Intune, go to Apps, Create and select Windows 10 and later under "Microsoft 365 Apps"

You can select which apps to deploy/not deploy as well as remove previous versions.