Stop installing Office twice on standard and engineer

Install-Office.ps1 ships inside all three MCL provisioning packages
(GCCH_Prod_MCL-PERS v2.15, -SH v2.10, -LOAN v1.3 and the RoW equivalents). It
moves M365 Office x86.zip out of C:\Deploy\Applications\BPRT, extracts it to
C:\WCDApps\Office and runs setup.exe /configure against the vendor's own
Configuration-x86.xml.

The unattend's FirstLogonCommands Order 3 was a second ODT run at that same
first logon. Click-to-Run is single-instance, so the two conflicted - which is
what "Office is not installing properly" looked like on both image types.

They also disagreed on what to install. The vendor package uses
O365ProPlusRetail, excludes Access/Groove/Lync/OneDrive/Teams, matches the OS
language, carries RemoveMSI and AppSettings, sets SharedComputerLicensing=1 for
the SH purpose and drops Outlook for LOAN. Ours used O365ProPlusNoTeamsRetail,
en-us, no RemoveMSI, no purpose awareness, and hardcoded
SharedComputerLicensing=0 - which would have broken shared computer activation
on every SH machine.

Removing the entry here matters as much as removing it live: the playbook
deploys this file to both image types with force: yes, so a playbook run would
have put the duplicate straight back.

The share payload is kept but retired, with a README recording why and what to
check before ever re-enabling it. Its install.bat and gea.xml were repaired
first (stage out of C:\Deploy ahead of the orchestrator's DeleteDeployDir task,
pin the ODT build to match v32.cab so no CDN lookup is attempted on the
isolated LAN, and register a self-deleting resume task since FirstLogonCommands
run only once) - VM-tested, then left in place unreferenced.

Live gea-standard and gea-engineer unattends updated to match; lint-unattend.py
passes clean on all three live files and both repo copies.

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				            </SynchronousCommand>

				            <!-- Install Microsoft Office -->

				            <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">

				                <Order>3</Order>

				                <CommandLine>cmd /c "cd /d C:\Deploy\Applications\extra\office\ &amp;&amp; install.bat"</CommandLine>

				                <Description>Install Microsoft Office</Description>

				            </SynchronousCommand>

				        </FirstLogonCommands>

				    </component>

				  </settings>

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