Recently I received a request from one of my readers on how to tailor Office deployments and to be specific, how to exclude Teams from deployment configuration file.
Let’s navigate to
here from the browser. This is the place from where administrators can manage and deploy office products and subscriptions. You can see that there are two options on the page,
- Create a new configuration
- Import your configuration
Here I am going to create a new configuration, but if you have existing configuration, you can import that too and update it based on your business needs.
Once you have entered the Deployment Settings page, there are many options which need to be configured.
Select the architecture for which we are creating a deployment,
Next is to select the Office Suite,
Next is to select the version which we want to deploy,
Now comes the most important part, wherein we are going the exclude the apps which we do not want to export as part of our deployment script,
Next mandatory parameter is the to select the primary language,
We are almost done. Final step is to export this newly created configuration, and that can be done by clicking on the Export button on top of the page.
As soon as Export button is clicked, another dialog will pop up asking for the file format,
Next is to accept the license agreement and provide a name for the configuration file,
Click on Export and a deployment file will get downloaded to your machine. Lets open the file and have a look at the configuration settings,
In the above image, you can see that Teams is excluded and will no longer be a epart of our Office deployment.
Happy Deployment.