Delivering a Good Microsoft Teams Experience in VDI

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Create Virtual Machines. Choose Your Language, Workload & Operating System. Teams in a virtualized environment supports chat and collaboration. And with the Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix, and VMware platforms, calling. Citrix delivers optimization for desktop-based Microsoft Teams using Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix Workspace app.
 
 

Microsoft teams client for vdi

The Teams app is available from the Android and iOS stores. If an unsupported browser version is detected, it will block access to the browser interface and recommend that the user download the desktop client or mobile app. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Table of contents Exit focus mode. Table of contents. Note Distribution of the client via these mechanisms is only for the initial installation of Teams clients and not for future updates.

Note During the installation, the PKG will prompt for admin credentials. Note The mobile version must be available to the public in order for Teams to work as expected. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Meetings are supported only if the meeting includes PSTN coordinates. Video: Not supported Sharing: Incoming sharing only no outgoing Microsoft apps and services will not support Internet Explorer 11 starting August 17, Microsoft Teams will not support Internet Explorer 11 earlier, starting November 30, Learn more.

Please note that Internet Explorer 11 will remain a supported browser. Internet Explorer 11 is a component of the Windows operating system and follows the Lifecycle Policy for the product on which it is installed.

Fully supported Sharing is supported without any plug-ins or extensions on Chrome version 72 or later. Group calls fully supported. Video: Fully supported Sharing: Fully supported. Group calls supported with full audio support. Video: Incoming only Sharing: Fully supported. Meetings are supported with full audio support. Video: Not supported Sharing: Incoming sharing only no outgoing Note that users are required to have the OpenH plugin in Firefox for full support.

Browsers without this plugin may see disruptions in the meeting, including in screen sharing activity. Watch tips and tricks. Microsoft Teams for Education Help drive the transition to inclusive online or hybrid learning, build confidence with remote learning tools, and maintain student engagement. Watch learning tools. Get the Teams mobile app. Send now. Your message is being sent. Your message has been sent, please check your device shortly.

Your message has been sent, please check your email shortly. We’re sorry, an error occurred while sending your message. Such setups are commonly shared multi-user sessions. VM configuration varies based on the number of users and available physical server resources. For a non-persistent setup, the Teams desktop app must be installed per-machine to the golden image.

This ensures an efficient launch of the Teams app during a user session. Using Teams in a non-persistent setup also requires a profile-caching manager for efficient Teams runtime data synchronization. Efficient data synchronization ensures that the appropriate user-specific information such as a user’s data, profile, or settings is cached during the user’s session.

Make sure data in these two folders are synced:. A roaming folder or, if you are using folder redirection, a caching manager is required to ensure that the Teams app has the runtime data and files required to run the application. This is necessary to mitigate network latency issues or network glitches, which would otherwise cause application errors and a slow experience due to unavailable data and files.

There are a variety of caching manager solutions available, such as FSLogix. Consult your caching manager provider for specific configuration instructions. Excluding these items helps reduce the user caching size to further optimize your non-persistent setup. Before you deploy Teams through Microsoft Apps for enterprise, you must first uninstall any pre-existing Teams apps if they were deployed using per-machine installation. Teams through Microsoft Apps for enterprise is installed per-user.

Teams is also being added to existing installations of Microsoft Apps for enterprise. Microsoft Apps for enterprise doesn’t support per-machine installations of Teams.

To use per-machine installation, you must exclude Teams from Microsoft Apps for enterprise. To learn more about Teams and Microsoft Apps for enterprise, see How to exclude Teams from new installations of Microsoft Apps for enterprise and Use Group Policy to control the installation of Teams. At this point, the golden image setup is complete. This process adds a required registry key to the machine that lets the Teams installer know it is a VDI instance.

Without it, the installer will error out, stating: “Installation has failed. Cannot install for all users when a VDI environment is not detected. All users can then uninstall Teams if they have admin credentials. PowerShell script : You can use the Teams deployment cleanup PowerShell script to uninstall Teams and remove the Teams folder for a user. Run the script for each user profile in which Teams was installed on the computer.

There are a variety of virtualized setup configurations, each with a different focus for optimization. For example, a configuration might focus on user density. When planning, consider the following to help optimize your setup based on your organization’s workload needs. In addition to chat and collaboration, Teams on VDI with calling and meetings is available with supported virtualization provider platforms.

Supported features are based on the WebRTC media stack and virtualization provider implementation. The following diagram provides an overview of the architecture. If you currently run Teams without AV optimization in VDI and you use features that are not supported yet for optimization such as Give and take control when app sharing , you have to set virtualization provider policies to turn off Teams redirection.

This means that Teams media sessions won’t be optimized. For steps on how to set policies to turn off Teams redirection, contact your virtualization provider. We recommend that you evaluate your environment to identify any risks and requirements that can influence your overall cloud voice and video deployment. To learn more about how to prepare your network for Teams, see Prepare your organization’s network for Teams. The chat and collaboration experience works as expected.

When media is needed, there are some experiences that might not meet user expectations on the Chrome browser:. If your organization wants to only use chat and collaboration features in Teams, you can set user-level policies to turn off calling and meeting functionality in Teams.

You can set policies by using the Teams admin center or PowerShell. It up to a few hours for the policy changes to propagate. If you don’t see changes for a given account immediately, try again in a few hours.