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Remove Teams chat (personal) from Windows 11 using PowerShell and Endpoint Manager Intune

How to uninstall Teams personal app from Windows 11 (for All users) with a PowerShell script deployed using Microsoft Endpoint manager (Intune)

Windows 11 Teams Versions

Windows 11 has two different versions of Teams:

Teams chat (for personal use) which is installed by default and the Teams desktop app which is installed with Microsoft 365 or using the Teams desktop installer.

Teams chat can only be used with personal Microsoft accounts


Most business environments will be using the Teams desktop app, and in that case you'll want to remove the Teams personal app from all of your Windows 11 devices.

The Teams personal app has a link to download Teams "work" version

Uninstall Teams (personal) from Windows 11 using PowerShell

Get Teams appx package name

Get-AppxPackage -name *teams*

Copy the package name "MicrosoftTeams"

Uninstall Teams app for All users using PowerShell

Get-AppxPackage -Name MicrosoftTeams -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue 

Deploy PowerShell script to remove Teams using Endpoint Manager

Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center

Devices - Windows
PowerShell Scripts - Add 

Name: Windows 11 Remove Teams Personal


Script settings:

Select the PowerShell script remove-teams-personal.ps1

Run this script using the logged on credentials: No
Enforce script signature check: No
Run script in 64 bit PowerShell: No


Asignments:

Assign the PowerShell script to a test group of devices or a group containing Windows 11 computers

Add groups
Select the "Windows 11 - Surface Devices" dynamic group

Click add

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