Microsoft Teams 2.1

[John Twilley]

 

Official Microsoft VDI Support page: New Microsoft Teams for Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn

This policy works for non-persistent pools, and the ZIP files will average around 30MB.  Microsoft is still making changes to the Teams client, so you have to update the exclusions as the client is updated.  Microsoft has a section that discusses the folders, and what they are used for, which I thought was nice of them. 

Official Folder Exclusions:   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-vdi-requirements-deploy#folder-exclusions

Direct-Flex still does not work well with New Teams (as of 6/2024), so do not use it.

# 'New Teams' 2.1 Policy
#
[IncludeRegistryTrees]
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModel\SystemAppData\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe

[IncludeFiles]
# Official Files to sync from Microsoft's New Teams Deployment Site
<LocalAppData>\Publishers\8wekyb3d8bbwe\TeamsSharedConfig\tma_settings.json
<LocalAppData>\Publishers\8wekyb3d8bbwe\TeamsSharedConfig\app_switcher_settings.json

[IncludeFolderTrees]
# Official Files to sync from Microsoft's New Teams Deployment Site
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe

[ExcludeFolderTrees]
# Official Exclusions from Microsoft's New Teams Deployment Site
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Logs
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\PerfLog
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\WV2Profile_tfw\WebStorage
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\WV2Profile_tfw\GPUCache
# Additional Exclusions
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\Crashpad
# <LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\GrShaderCache
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\WV2Profile_tfw\Cache
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\WV2Profile_tfw\Code Cache
#<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\WV2Profile_tfw\IndexedDB
<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\WV2Profile_tfw\Service Worker\CacheStorage
#<LocalAppData>\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\WV2Profile_tfw\Service Worker\ScriptCache
 

To install New Teams in your golden image. 

Download the new Microsoft Teams Bootstrapper:  https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2243204&clcid=0x409 

On your persistent or non-persistent VM, run the following command as an administrator: teamsbootstrapper.exe -p

For local path MSIX install method, enter: .\teamsbootstrapper.exe -p -o "c:\path\to\teams.msix"

ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-bulk-install-client 

New Teams: MSIX downloads: https://github.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/blob/master/defconfig2 if you need the offline installer, or want to test a newer build.

Edited June 10 by John Twilley

[Dominik]

Install new Teams as published apps in my article -> New Teams as an application in Vmware Horizon - vdesktop.ninja