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How can you remove MS Teams for personal use of a Windows 11 Device and ensure it is completely removed even when a new user signs in on the same device
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Abdulhusein, Mo
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Hi,
We are migrating our devices to Windows 11 and I am currently working on creating a base image to be created before deploying the devices out to the Users. We have installed the "New Teams" for work or school however, I am facing an issue where the MS Teams (Personal) is already installed and you can easily remove this (per user) but I am wondering if this can be removed unanimously across the whole machine. Ideally, it being removed completely even after a new user logs in to the machine for the first time.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks
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JimmyYang-MSFT 56,806 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2024-04-18T07:33:24.8633333+00:00 It is possible to remove the MS Teams (Personal) application from all user accounts on a Windows 11 machine. One way to do this is by using the PowerShell command "Get-AppxPackage" to get a list of all installed applications, and then using the "Remove-AppxPackage" command to remove the MS Teams (Personal) application
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JimmyYang-MSFT 56,806 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2024-04-25T09:59:31.76+00:00 It has been a while, how is everything going?
If you have any update about this issue, please feel free to post back.
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Aleksandras Nikoncukas 5 Reputation points2024-04-25T10:32:01.8366667+00:00 Hi Jimmy, I have used your idea, but had to be more specific. Since Teams Personal and Teams for Business (old one) use same name, but I found that Teams Personal is installed on user only, I used detection/remediation scripts in intune to overcome this. I used Get-AppxPackage -Name * MicrosoftTeams * | Remove-AppxPackage. And executed that in user context. That way, I left business version untouched. Sure, we will need to remove that legacy one at some point, but this time it was a mission to get rid of Personal one only. Hope that helps Abdulhusein too.
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Molly Lu - MSFT 1,021 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2024-04-29T00:16:53.3033333+00:00 Hello,
May I know whether your issue has been solved or not? If not, please share it in here. We can work together to figure it out.
Best regards,
Molly
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Zag 20 Reputation points2024-06-03T08:53:18.03+00:00 Open Powershell and simply type this
Get-AppxPackage -Name MicrosoftTeams | Remove-AppxPackage -ErrorAction stop
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Joel Coehoorn 0 Reputation points2024-10-29T15:38:33.1466667+00:00 @JimmyYang-MSFT I'd like to clarify this. On my test system, with both versions of Teams, has packages named MSTeams and MicrosoftTeams. Can you confirm MicrosoftTeams is the personal, and MSTeams is the new client for work or business?
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Miggy 0 Reputation points2025-02-06T18:59:49.67+00:00 This is still an issue, I can't conceivably go to 10,000 machines and run a powershell command. & it does not work if sent it as a script from Intune. The app is still installed.
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Ty Henderson 0 Reputation points2025-02-21T12:31:42.9566667+00:00 Good day all,
I feel really sorry for folks that come to this community for help, and get cookie-cutter responses that aren't helpful half the time. For anyone that's wondering. "MSTeams" is the "new" Teams
From Powershell:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-AppxPackage -Name MSTeams Name : MSTeams Publisher : CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US Architecture : X64 ResourceId : Version : 25017.203.3370.1174 PackageFullName : MSTeams_25017.203.3370.1174_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe InstallLocation : C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_25017.203.3370.1174_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe IsFramework : False PackageFamilyName : MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe PublisherId : 8wekyb3d8bbwe IsResourcePackage : False IsBundle : False IsDevelopmentMode : False NonRemovable : False IsPartiallyStaged : False SignatureKind : Developer Status : Ok- Regarding the question about how you know if this is the Personal or Work/School Microsoft Teams. The cache location for the new Teams is located here:
*C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe*
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-vdi-requirements-deploy
As you can see from the output of my Powershell command, the Installation location of MSTeams aka new Teams is
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_25017.203.3370.1174_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
To figure this out I just matched the string
8wekyb3d8bbwe
from the output of my command to the installation location containing the same string.
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