Microsoft Teams on Shared Devices

[CyBeRkId2002]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to improve the user experience of Teams on shared devices. I have installed teams as a Machine Wide install, but would still like it a little faster on start-up if possible (currently about 1:30 from hitting log-on to having teams up and running on some fairly low-powered devices). I have been looking into setting up the laptops similar to VDI's using this info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-for-vdi

 

If I run the setup manually it works great, but I am struggling to install this as a package via Intune. My script is as below but doesn't seem to be working:

 

Start-Process C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe -ArgumentList "/passive /x Teams_windows_x64.msi" -wait

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Teams" /v IsWVDEnvironment /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Start-Process C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe -ArgumentList "/i Teams_windows_x64.msi ALLUSER=1 ALLUSERS=1" -wait

 

What are others doing? Are you skipping the Teams app altogether on Shared Devices and using the web interface (which is an option using a managed shortcut on Edge), using the standard Teams Machine-Wide installer or has anyone actually managed to get the above to work?

[free780]

In the pre covid and pre machine wide installer days I scripted a scheduled task to download the latest Teams Installer to sit somewhere on C.

 

Then each user would need to start Teams. This reduced some of the time.

 

It is Electron which is Chromium really. Primarily it’s was designed for 1:1 devices.

[Cw2k]

Vdi version is feature limited.

 

Microsoft have a power shell script in their GitHub which handles updating the teams machine wide version and keeping the multiple versions is dumps in the user profiles upto date:

 

https://github.com/microsoft/TeamsMsiOverride