This does not change the cloud-based update mechanism. Tom stays up to date with industry developments and shares news and his opinions on his Tomtalks. He is a regular speaker at events around the world. Looks like we accidentally pushed these for external use without having the chance to sign them appropriately. Both versions install but there is no clear instruction from MS as to what version would be recommended. Thanks, Dan. I think either will work, but I would go 64 bit if you have a 64 bit OS.

There is an outlook plugin for Teams, but I think either will work. That does not sound like automatically updating to me. You also provided a version-specific link to a. EXE binary to download, when I’d specifically asked for the latest version of the. MSI binary. It is all very well posting a link to the latest version at that very moment, but as I said to Massimo above, the whole point of the aka.

I can only assume it wasn’t meant that way when it was originally written and has translated poorly to text or you were super frustrated at the time. Whilst I can appreciate your frustration at getting potentially unhelpful information. There is no reason to belittle someone based on their title. Remember that MVP’s are admins, just like you. We don’t work for Microsoft, we don’t have a special “magic book” with everything in it next to us and we spend our free time helping individuals such as yourself for free in our own time.

I can’t speak for Eric, but for myself, it was to give back to the community that helped me when I was a wee young sysadmin running exchange I understand the frustration of working with VDI servers and clients myself having been dealing with it since Lync My understanding is one of the main reasons the placeholder is on a specific version is because of the Office rollout strategy. With that version being the “safest” version to deploy regardless of tenant status and VDI plugin build.

None of which can be determined by a simple URL redirect. Despite flags being set to remove features some weirdness still occurs.

Your best bet then is going to be determining the build number based on an SOE machine in your environment, then downloading that version using the links Eric advised before. As I hinted to before. Which obviously won’t work in a packaged VDI image. Edit: Spelling mistake. Products 68 Special Topics 42 Video Hub Most Active Hubs Microsoft Teams. Security, Compliance and Identity.

Microsoft Edge Insider. The x86 architecture bit vs. We recommend the bit version of Teams on bit systems. Teams requires. NET Framework 4. NET Framework or later isn’t installed the Teams installer will offer to install for you.

The Windows client leverages the following locations:. When users initiate a call using the Teams client for the first time, they might notice a warning with the Windows firewall settings that asks for users to allow communication. Users might be instructed to ignore this message because the call will work, even when the warning is dismissed. Two inbound rules for teams. If you want to prevent Teams from prompting users to create firewall rules when the users make their first call from Teams, use the PowerShell script in Sample script – Microsoft Teams firewall PowerShell script.

Administrative access is required to install the Mac client. During the installation, the PKG will prompt for admin credentials.

The user needs to enter the admin credentials, regardless of whether or not the user is an admin. IT Pros can use a managed deployment solution, such as Jamf Pro, to distribute the Teams installation files to all Macs in their organization. On Linux, package managers such as apt and yum will try to install any requirements for you.

However, if they don’t then you will need to install any reported requirements before installing Teams on Linux. Users will be able to install native Linux packages in. The signing key to enable auto-updating using the system’s package manager is installed automatically.

Teams ships monthly and if the repository was installed correctly, then your system package manager should handle auto-updating in the same way as other packages on the system.

The Teams mobile apps are available for Android and iOS, and are geared for on-the-go users participating in chat-based conversations and allow peer-to-peer audio calls. Android : Support is limited to the last four major versions of Android. When a new major version of Android is released, the new version and the previous three versions are officially supported.

When a new major version of iOS is released, the new version of iOS and the previous version are officially supported. Distribution of the mobile apps via MDM or side-loading is not supported by Microsoft. Once the mobile app has been installed on a supported mobile platform, the Teams Mobile App itself will be supported provided the version is within three months of the current release. The browser client supports Calling and Meetings by using webRTC, so there is no plug-in or download required to run Teams in a browser.

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Despite flags being set to remove features some weirdness still occurs. For example, running Firefox on the Linux operating system is an option for using Teams. Video: Incoming only Sharing: Fully supported. I take on board your point about the responses being done by people in their own time. Enable the Prevent Microsoft Teams from starting automatically after installation Group Policy setting. Install the bit version of Teams only on bit operating systems. View all posts.