FYI

This affected my office installs that included pre-deployment scripts that removed previous versions of office..

https://pitstop.manageengine.com/portal/community/topic/uninstall-office-2010-and-reinstall-office-365-on-a-network-using-desktop-central

manually re-added my arguments in both repository and software packages. didn't have many scripts with arguments so this was remedied easily enough.