Stop automatically installing the new Outlook

What's even worse is I have auto app updates feature turned off, but it installs the new app anyways even though it's not supposed to update any apps.

You can create a batch file that uses a wildcard for the username to delete files in a specific folder across all users. Here's an example of how you can do it:

batch
@echo off
set folderPath=C:\Users%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Migration\*
del /Q "%folderPath%"
echo Files in %folderPath% have been deleted.
pause-------------------------------------------------------------- This script does the following:

1. @echo off prevents commands from being displayed in the command prompt.
2. set folderPath=C:\Users\%username%\specific_folder\* sets the folder path, where %username% is a wildcard that automatically gets replaced with the currently logged-in user's username.
3. del /Q "%folderPath%" deletes all files in the specified folder quietly (/Q).
4. echo Files in %folderPath% have been deleted. prints a message indicating that the files have been deleted.
5. pause keeps the command prompt window open so you can see the message.

You could then save this file in the startup shell, just press the Windows key + R then type Shell:startup then OK

This should take you to the folder where you could save the batch file which will run each time a user logs on.

Hope this helps :)

This is an issue when we are using images in VMware for our desktops and this has to be done at a user level. Our business is suffering do to this very Invasive way of pushing new **** out the most business DON'T want or need. So how do we make this stop at a DOMAIN level?

Just delete any .JSON files here:

C:\Users<Youruser>\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Migration

Just replace <youruser> with your username example

C:\Users\Corey\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Migration

This will stop Outlook from auto installing it's aids on to your computer

Unfortunately Lucas, this is a poor answer to the question. Just saying that "old Outlook" and "new Outlook" can be installed in parallel doesn't work. When new Outlook gets installed, it changes the association of .eml and several other Outlook file types to itself. This breaks old Outlook and causes users to put in HelpDesk tickets because they can no longer work.

There should be a way to prevent new Outlook from being installed on the machine via a group policy or registry key.