However, large businesses used to find Skype a bit constricting and lacking. Normal Skype has all the features a small business of, say, 25 people could possibly require. Skype for Business adds a steaming pile of amazing features, features designed specifically to benefit businesses, on to the already amazing communication platform that we knew as Skype. This Skype variant is commonly known as Skype for Business. These all behave the same, the tool runs and does not remove Skype.Īm I doing something wrong with this process? Also, is there a way for me to verify the ProductID for Skype on one of my test systems? I don't see it in any of the installation configuration XML files under the Root folder in Program Files (X86).The folks at Microsoft caught on to the fact that Skype was used as a mode of internal coammunication by businesses across the globe, and in doing so developed and released a Skype variant designed specifically to be used to by large businesses and corporations. However, Skype for Business is still installed.Īt first I thought I might have the wrong product ID so I have tried replacing SkypeforBusinessRetail with Lync, LyncEntryRetail, and SkypeforBusinessEntryRetail. It successfully proceeds from steps 1-4 and then tells me I should reboot. Next I run the Office Deployment tool with the command line: setup.exe /configure RemoveSkype.xmlĪfter that I see the Office Deployment tool run. To test the tool I am first killing the skype task: taskkill /f /im lync.exe Here is what my RemoveSkype.xml looks like: I have downloaded the latest ODT and created an XML called RemoveSkype.xml and I have placed it in the same folder with SETUP.EXE from the ODT. I am trying to do this with the Office Deployment tool. I need to create a Skype removal package that I can deploy with SCCM.

We want to remove Skype and migrate users to Teams. We have Windsystems with Office 365 including Skype for Business. I've seen other posts regarding Skype removal using SCCM but I can't seem to get the Office Deployment tool to do this successfully.

Cannot uninstall skype for business