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With per-machine installation, automatic updates are disabled. This means that to update the Teams app, you must uninstall the current version to update to a newer version. With per-user installation, automatic updates are enabled. Keep the Teams desktop app in your VDI environment up to date. Teams desktop app versions with release dates that are more than 90 days older than the current version's release date aren't supported.

Unsupported Teams desktop app versions show a blocking page to users and request that they update their app. For most VDI deployments, we recommend you deploy Teams using per-machine installation.

To update to the latest Teams version, start with the uninstall procedure followed by latest Teams version deployment. For Teams AV optimization in VDI environments to work properly, the thin-client device must have access to the internet. If internet access isn't available at the thin-client device, optimization startup won't be successful.

This means that the user is in a non-optimized media state. In a dedicated persistent setup, users' local operating system changes are retained after users log off. For persistent setup, Teams supports both per-user and per-machine installation. In a non-persistent setup, users' local operating system changes are not retained after users log off.

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. Web browser media offload is supported with the Browser Redirection feature. See Configuring Browser Redirection for support details. This section briefly lists the system requirements for both the client and the virtual desktop when using the Media Optimization for Microsoft Teams feature. Client system for OSes supported with a specific release, see the appropriate Horizon Client release notes.

You can see the setting if you select Customize installation in the installer. Double-click the. If you are using the installation wizard, you can see that the Media Optimization for Microsoft Teams option is selected, as shown below. Media Optimization for Microsoft Teams is also installed by default in the Horizon Agent, but it is controlled with a GPO, which is not enabled by default. After setting this policy, you must log out of the Horizon desktop for the GPO policy to take effect.

Horizon Agent must be installed before Microsoft Teams. If the order is reversed, then on first run, Microsoft Teams does not detect Horizon Agent and caches an environment value that indicates the feature is running on an unsupported remote desktop. This results in Microsoft Teams never supporting the Media Optimization feature unless the cache is deleted. To avoid this issue, be sure to install Horizon Agent before you install Microsoft Teams.

Then, on first run, Microsoft Teams detects Horizon Agent and caches the correct environment value, which verifies that the feature is running on a supported remote desktop. As described in the overview of this guide, there are significant advantages to running Microsoft Teams in optimized mode. However, as you are planning your implementation, keep in mind that end users who are not running supported Horizon Client versions Horizon Client or later for Windows, Horizon Client or later for Mac, or Horizon Client or later for Linux will not be able to take advantage of this feature.

They will not, however, go back to running the full client in the virtual desktop because the GPO has set Microsoft Teams to offload audio and video to the client. Those users will instead run in fallback mode. A user can check if Microsoft Teams is running in optimized mode, fallback mode, or natively no optimization in the virtual desktop. Audio and video quality may be reduced. Talk to your IT admin. If you enable the optimization GPO in the virtual desktop, these clients, although not officially supported, will begin implementing offload.

The bugs we found in these clients during beta testing are fixed in Horizon Client for Windows version or later for Horizon 8 or Horizon Client for Windows 5. VMware strongly recommends using the officially supported versions. For beta testing, VMware published the Horizon Client beta installer for Mac via the beta portal that supports optimization. VMware recommends that you use the officially supported version, Horizon Client or later for Mac, to get the latest functionality and bug fixes for the Mac client.

Similarly, VMware published a beta version of Horizon Client for Linux that supports optimization via the beta portal. Text-based session watermark. Screen sharing. Virtual display layout. Audio features. Browser content redirection. HDX video conferencing and webcam video compression. HTML5 multimedia redirection. Optimization for Microsoft Teams. Monitor, troubleshoot, and support Microsoft Teams.

Windows Media redirection. General content redirection. Client folder redirection. Host to client redirection. Bidirectional content redirection. Generic USB redirection and client drive considerations. Printing configuration example. Best practices, security considerations, and default operations.

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ICA policy settings. HDX features managed through the registry. Load management policy settings. Profile management policy settings. User personalization policy settings.

Virtual Delivery Agent policy settings. Virtual IP policy settings. Connector for Configuration Manager policy settings. Multi-type licensing.

FAQ for licensing. Universal Windows Platform Apps. Connections and resources. Local Host Cache. Virtual IP and virtual loopback. Delivery Controllers. VDA registration. Use Search in Studio. User profiles. Citrix Insight Services. Citrix Scout. Configuration logging. Event logs. Advanced configuration. PIV smart card authentication. Network analysis. Delegated Administration and Director.

Secure Director deployment. Configure with Citrix Analytics for Performance. Site analytics. Alerts and notifications. Filters data. Historical trends. Troubleshoot deployments. User issues. If you use the per-user, it will auto-update. If in the event you need to uninstall Microsoft Teams to deploy an upgrade, you can use the following command:. The following indicates that Microsoft Teams is configured for VDI Optimization, however is not functioning and running in fallback mode.

And, just like Microsoft Teams Optimization, this is one less hop for data, one less processing point, and one less load off your server […]. We utilize HP ThinPro devices flavor of Linux in our environment and the latest Linux client now has optimization built in.

It only shows the version we are running, unfortunately. Thank you for the post. Great article. If media optimizations loaded, the banner will show you Azure Virtual Desktop Media optimized.

If the banner shows you Azure Virtual Desktop Media not connected , quit the Teams app and try again. If media optimizations loaded, the audio devices and cameras available locally will be enumerated in the device menu.

If the menu shows Remote audio , quit the Teams app and try again. If the devices still don't appear in the menu, check the Privacy settings on your local PC. Disconnect from the remote session, then reconnect and check the audio and video devices again.

To join calls and meetings with video, you must also grant permission for apps to access your camera. Using Teams in a virtualized environment is different from using Teams in a non-virtualized environment. For more information about the limitations of Teams in virtualized environments, check out Teams for Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure.