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For corporate use please let stop automatic updates and user side updates.
Admins can deploy updates in a managable way

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  • Mike Yam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be good to let IT Admin control a bit of updates. There is one scenario that make us frustrate:

    We have a common computer in our meeting room. Our users will login with their own account and use it for Teams meeting. Sometimes if the user doesn't use the computer for a period of time. When the user signs in, he/she need to wait the Teams app to get updated, it can take a long time unless the user manually download it from MS website and install again.

  • Shaun Wells commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The ability to control updates is crucial in a financial institute, as we're governed by many controls and policies - Controlling what versions of software have been deployed into the Enterprise is critical to us.

  • Kanth Kolluru commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi, Is there any progress on this? Auto update seems to have been compromised with a vulnerability identified where it can be tweaked to download package from any source instead of just Microsoft teams update packages. Being able to control the auto update behavior has become all the more crucial now.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-teams-can-be-used-to-download-and-run-malicious-packages/

    https://medium.com/@reegun/nuget-squirrel-uncontrolled-endpoints-leads-to-arbitrary-code-execution-80c9df51cf12

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The certificate used to sign the application changed last week and this impacted many users since we block executable files from running in the AppData folder structure except for trusted signed apps. Since we cannot control when the updates are executed, we can hardly update the trusted certificates list in advance making this security measure harder to manage.

  • Jon Tydda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I do all my other MS updates via SCCM, why is Teams different? I want all my users to be on the same (approved and tested) version, not necessarily the latest version.

  • Ewald Bracko commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also I'd like to add:
    Don't create an Teams application icon on the user desktop by default. This needs to be an administrative option.

  • Ewald Bracko commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The best way to achieve this would be to install Teams into the %ProgramFiles% folder in general. Create an enterprise-specific install for that if necessary.

    Use the user profile folders only to store user specific configuration settings and user specific temporary data like cache files.

    Create and install a system service that handles the Teams Update. The Teams update mechanism should be limited to updating the central installation folder only and it should be avoided to do registry manipulations, especially not within the HKLM hive of the registry.
    The Teams Updater service should first download the update package locally. Then it should check if any instance of Teams is running and delay the update process in that case for some minutes until doing a recheck. Updates should be deployed only if Teams is not being used on the system.
    That way Teams will be well suited for any kind of business environment, even RDS and Citrix.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This update issue kicked me from Teams during a meeting where we were looking at a planner. There was no evidence of what was happening, no notification, just disappeared and then restarted. Not really acceptable behaviour.

  • todd jones commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    client runs in an RDS environment with 40 users. VDI maybe the next step. BUT since adding Teams a month ago, the update creates a storm of user activity since runs on each user session individually and slows the server to 100% usage. Be nice to find a solution that updates is managed and maybe after hours or weekend and not immediately at run time.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There is also a downside on the desktop app that when it automatically updates our antivirus blocks it and then we cant use it for a while until it gets approved, such a hassle.

  • Scott Yates commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow us to disable this while we have the app loaded. It is fine to update when we first load or we we choose to re-load the app, but not while we are in flow, and coding. It distracts developers and we lose time getting back into flow.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I has got a strong demand from our customers.Customer need client update manegement of Teams．

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