Updating Teams

[Techie-v2]

Hi All,

 

We initially deployed teams many many moons ago before before anyone had ever heard of remote teaching and live lessons and it lasted and served us well during those periods. It was initially deployed using SCCM using the office 365 configuration and deployment built into it.

 

We are now how ever finding an issue with the original installation in that it needs updating for it to run. It seems it doesn't run its usual install on logon stuff (even with the gpo to disable opening teams on logon turned off) and to get teams to run we need to run and update exe we have downloaded from Microsoft called teams_windows_x64 - then this does the initial installation stuff, then teams will run (this only works for that user on that machine, if the users uses a different machine they need to update again and if a different uses the original machine, they need the update as well, profiles, i know). With the above mentioned gpo turned off so teams runs on logon, it opens but straight away says it needs to be updated and points the user at microsoft to download the update file.

 

Obviously I'm looking for a way to run this update for all users in the background. I have updated my office content in SCCM and done some test deployments/rebuilds and I'm still having the teams issue. How is everyone else updating teams or overcoming the barriers I have.

 

Thanks

[caffrey]

You running with teams wide installer ?

From memory I think it's

msiexec /i Teams_windows_x64.msi ALLUSERS=1

[Techie-v2]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the reply, the teams_windows_x64 file I have is an exe rather than an msi. If I expand it with 7zip there is no msi inside it, the only relevant file is update.exe

 

Thanks

*Edit

Hi,

 

Thanks for the reply, the teams_windows_x64 file I have is an exe rather than an msi. If I expand it with 7zip there is no msi inside it, the only relevant file is update.exe

 

Thanks

 

*edit

 

I have tried the exe with allusers=1 but that didn't work

 

Our shortcut for teams points at C:\users\USERNAME\appdata\local\microsoft\teams\update.exe but this file only seems to exist after we run the teams_windows_x64 download - If I make a shortcut to point to C:\program file(86)\teams installer\teams.exe it runs but then says it needs an update.

 

Thanks

Edited November 9, 2021 by Techie-v2

[caffrey]

You can get the MSI here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment

[Techie-v2]

You can get the MSI here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment

 

Thanks I have just fond that and tested it on one machine and it seems to have worked, about to deploy it to a test suite!

 

Thanks for the help

[ITGuyNW]

Yeah use the MSI machine wide installer. Make sure all other teams installations are uninstalled and wiped from the machine first. The MSI auto updates.

[Cw2k]

Teams Machine Wide won’t work if users already have a Teams install in their profile, it also can’t update itself so this can lead to it deploying non updatable older versions in the user profiles (have seen this with the versions below 1.4), the machine wide also won’t install over the top of itself if you try to push an updated version without first removing the original version.

 

Microsoft have a script to help with this: https://github.com/microsoft/TeamsMsiOverride

[Techie-v2]

Well results have been good so far.

Deployed it to the whole network and everyone who couldn't access the app can now do so and everyone who could already because we have already run the update for them hasn't noticed a difference so all seems good.

 

Thanks all for your help