Hello,

Our environment consists of 10 RDS (terminal servers) running Office 2013.  I'd like to not have the MSOSYNC and MSOUC run for our users as they do not connect to the Internet to sync files on remote servers. All work is stored on local servers on our LAN.

I'd like to know if there's some method/magic/voodoo to stop having the Microsoft Office 15 Sync Maintenance task from appearing in Task Scheduler.  As our users are load balanced on servers these tasks are loaded multiple times and remain there even if the user is not logged onto that RDS server.  This results in a slight drop in performance and also requires me as the administrator to go into the Task Scheduler of all these servers and delete these useless tasks every few days.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have the same issue on a single Citrix TS server. 

I just removed "user" access to the two files involved "MSOUC.EXE and MSOSYNC.EXE" and removed from all tasks from scheduled tasks. I will let you know if that worked. 

This article said just to delete but I don't want to do that. 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-office_storage/how-to-disable-microsoft-upload-center-2013/8bbc93e6-bc3b-4414-a1d3-9f37c3ed2d6e

Hi,

Try this:

Press Win + R, type "msconfig" in the blank box, press Enter.
Startup tab
Uncheck both Microsoft Office items (msosync.exe and msouc.exe) if they exist
Click OK
restart

If that doesn't work, the workaround can be used as to rename MSOSYNC.EXE and MSOUC.EXE to other names, then create two text files and rename them to "MSOSYNC.EXE" and "MSOUC.EXE". Actually this is not quite suggested when you need to Sharepoint or OneDrive for Business.

Melon Chen

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