Windows 11 - Microsoft Teams automatically installing itself?

[Kjell]

Does anyone know if there's any way of stopping Microsoft Teams from automatically installing after completing Windows 11 installation?

 

[crypticus]

Do offline installation, when reached to desktop you can try this tool to remove and block before installing https://www.ntlite.com/community/index.php?threads/windows-11.2235/page-12#post-21152

 

[Kjell]

I've used this for now:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Teams]
"PreventInstallationFromMsi"=dword:00000001

 

[crypticus]

Its to prevent installation during office setup. won't work for windows alone.

 

[Kjell]

Its to prevent installation during office setup. won't work for windows alone.

Yeah you're right, it's not a good solution unfortunately

 

[garlin]

W11 Teams is not really Office, it's just a rebranded Skype app. There's a Reddit thread on the lack of progress in blocking reinstall.

 

[crypticus]

I checked the solutions are not different, folder permission, or restart removal at every restart... someone mentioned about

We can see in the event viewer (in Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeploymentServer) that Windows is calling https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2160968 to download it again, wich seems pretty shameful.

some one mentioned about contentdelivery manager. which i tried already didnot work for teams but worked for other sponsored apps.