Changing existing installations of Office (remove access) - Best practise

[Silencer0001]

All,

I wanted to remove access 2013 from currently installed computers with office 2013 (+- 500 computers)
Searching in exam ref books and technet, I have found that there are many ways to accomplish this.

What would be seen as best practise? I'm guessing the OCT in combination with setup.exe?
Technet only mentions the MSP in combination with MSIEXEC.

• OCT files can also be used to update an installation after it has been deployed. For a
  manual installation, you can specify the file when you run setup.exe from the command line
  with the /adminfile parameter. For example, if you have saved a customization file to a file
  server, you could use the following command to reference it during a manual setup:
  setup.exe /adminfile "\\tt-util-02\software\Office 2013\office2013.msp"
  Source: Exam Ref 70-695
  
• You can also use the Config.xml file to modify the settings of existing installations by running Setup again. After you customize a Config.xml file, you can reference it when launching
  the Office setup program, as follows:
  \\tt-util-03\share\Office\setup.exe /config \\tt-util-03\share\Office\ProPlus.WW\Config.xml
  Source: Exam Ref 70-695
  
  
• To apply the Setup customization (.msp) file to existing installations, you must apply the .msp file directly to the user's computer. You cannot apply the customization file to existing installations by placing the .msp file in the Updates folder and running Setup again on the user's computer, or by running Setup with the customization file specified in the command line.
  
  For example, users can apply the Setup customization .msp file by double-clicking the .msp file or by running msiexec with the /p option, at a command prompt as shown in the following example:
  
  msiexec.exe /p \\server\share\custom.msp
  Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179141.aspx

Thanks!

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