Don’t install Microsoft Teams with new installations or updates of Office
- Policy ID
- L_PreventTeamsInstall
- Scope
- Computer Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
- Source
- Microsoft 365 Apps / Office Administrative Templates (version 5568.1000)
- Category
- Microsoft Office 2016 (Machine) › Updates
Description
This policy setting allows you to control whether Microsoft Teams is installed with a new installation of Office or when an existing installation of Office is updated.
Note: This policy setting only applies to versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, where Teams is installed with a new installation or an update of Office.
If you enable this policy setting, Teams won’t be installed with a new installation or an update of Office.
If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, Teams will be installed as part of a new installation or an update of Office, unless you have used some other method, such as the Office Deployment Tool, to exclude the installation of Teams.
Registry
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- preventteamsinstallREG_DWORD