New Teams App Preview

[Netwacky87]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-desktop-admin?tabs=teams-admin-center

 

https://www.neowin.net/news/the-microsoft-teams-revamp-has-been-revealed-with-faster-performance-and-a-simpler-layout/

 

Side by side preview:

 

I cannot wait for this!

[ITGURU]

I'm not seeing the setting in Teams Admin centre?

[Brax]

Has been needed for a long time, takes up way too much resources.

[DrCheese]

I'm not seeing the setting in Teams Admin centre?

 

You won't. The swines haven't enabled it for edu tenants yet. Even if you set the preview mode via powershell it won't show.

[DrCheese]

So it won't show.. but if you set the policy via powershell

 

Then pull the latest MSIX from MS direct

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/master/defconfig2

(You want Teams 2.1 - 23085.200.1968.185)

 

It'll let you login. You can see why it's blocked by default on EduTenants tho as none of the education stuff is ready (assignments etc)

 

But it does let you see a shape of things to come

[Tefters]

No admin install either at present I see

[titch]

Please let it be properly deployable and not sit lurking in users own areas ready disappear or not update at the drop of a hat.....please please please.

[Tefters]

Please let it be properly deployable and not sit lurking in users own areas ready disappear or not update at the drop of a hat.....please please please.

This 1000 times.

 

Install to system, not user and be deployed/installed via managed methods.

 

Rotating computers with user apps installing in appdata is just shocking.

[jthompson]

Yeah, it still amazes me that the company that brought us AppLocker also brought us the Teams deployment method. Almost as bad as GoTo.

[escgdanny]

I tried setting the policy but usenewteamsclient is not a valid option as it returns an error "a parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name.....|"

 

Do I just wait for it to reach EDU?

[escgdanny]

So it won't show.. but if you set the policy via powershell

 

Then pull the latest MSIX from MS direct

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/master/defconfig2

(You want Teams 2.1 - 23085.200.1968.185)

 

 

I tried setting the policy but usenewteamsclient is not a valid option as it returns an error "a parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name.....|"

 

Do I just wait for it to reach EDU?

[ITGuyNW]

The biggest change for us will be the ability to switch organisations like the mobile app. Why they left that out of the desktop version up to now I don't know.

[Cw2k]

I tried setting the policy but usenewteamsclient is not a valid option as it returns an error "a parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name.....|"

 

Do I just wait for it to reach EDU?

 

Edu support isn’t until the later in the 2nd half of the year.

[dmj]

Please let it be properly deployable and not sit lurking in users own areas ready disappear or not update at the drop of a hat.....please please please.

 

Is it still an electron JavaScript webapp? Surely that's the most easily deployed app there is - Point a browser at a URL....

[Cw2k]

Is it still an electron JavaScript webapp? Surely that's the most easily deployed app there is - Point a browser at a URL....

 

Rebuilt from the ground up. Now hosted in Edge WebView2

 

Some details https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-advantages-of-the-new-architecture/ba-p/3775704

[escgdanny]

Good news the powershell setting is now valid and I'm running the new Teams, thanks!