How do I push out MS Teams to all teacher PC's?

[kennysarmy]

We've been managing in past lockdowns just using the web-client, but now I've been asked to install it for all teachers!

 

From inspection on my PC it's installed to the location : C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams which is obviously no use to anyone!

 

I've read you can just push out an MSI as I would usually do to install applications, just wondering if there are any gotchas with this method?

 

Thanks all.

[Gurtlush]

probably best to start somewhere like this: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2020/01/microsoft-teams-cannot-install-vdi-environment-is-not-detected.html

you can add a registry key to make teams think it's a VDI Enviroment.

This will install teams as a per machine mode rather than per user.

it was working very well for us but since they've added loads of new features (breakout rooms for one) which aren't supported under VDI enviroments , its become an issue again.

not found anything easier at the moment.

[kennysarmy]

I've found this guide:

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/msi-deployment

 

Might try it on a couple of staff PC's later today.

[mavhc]

Install the teams machine wide installer, then if set it to not auto install, put a bat file containing:

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Teams Installer\Teams.exe" --checkInstall --source=default
%localappdata%\Microsoft\teams\update.exe --processStart "Teams.exe" --process-start-args "--user-initiated"

 

on the public desktop

[Nblakey96]

Just wondering, did you manage to get this working? Did you have to give staff access to the app data folder?

 

I've found this guide:

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/msi-deployment

 

Might try it on a couple of staff PC's later today.