Microsoft Teams install on one machine for all users

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Microsoft Teams install on one machine for all users

IBN 4,476

Hello Teams Community,

With the return to work of all staff in our offices we have installed lots of new audiovisual equipment. All rooms have a mini p.c. behind each screen.

Our problem is that each user has to log onto the PC and load their windows profile. Each time Teams need to be installed.

Is there a way that we could have teams installed for all users and each machine?

Karl Hunter Jr 0 Reputation points

2024-08-22T14:51:21.9566667+00:00
I finally figured it out for the “new teams” on my own after 3 days of searching online and not finding anything. The new teams installs as a windows app and the file for it is inaccessible through file explorer through normal means.

Heres what you can do:

Install the new teams and pin it to start.

Drag the icon from the start menu to the desktop to create a shortcut

Copy the shortcut on the desktop and paste it in C:/Users/default/desktop

You may need admin privileges to execute

This will allow each new user on the device to open teams directly from the desktop, and they will be prompted to sign in.

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Karl Hunter Jr 0 Reputation points

2024-08-22T14:51:21.9566667+00:00

I finally figured it out for the “new teams” on my own after 3 days of searching online and not finding anything. The new teams installs as a windows app and the file for it is inaccessible through file explorer through normal means.

Heres what you can do:

Install the new teams and pin it to start.

Drag the icon from the start menu to the desktop to create a shortcut

Copy the shortcut on the desktop and paste it in C:/Users/default/desktop

You may need admin privileges to execute

This will allow each new user on the device to open teams directly from the desktop, and they will be prompted to sign in.

Answer 1

Philippe Levesque 5,836

Hi, no Team is installed by user.

You can pre-install Team inside the computer with the Team Wide Installer, but that version load the Team inside the user profile to install it. It's not a local machine install.

For more information on the Wide Installer; https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment

The Teams MSI places an installer in %SystemDrive%\Program Files\Teams Installer on 32-bit Windows and %SystemDrive%\Program Files (x86)\Teams Installer on 64-bit Windows. Whenever a user signs into a new Windows user profile, the installer is launched and a copy of the Teams app is installed in that user's %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Teams folder. If a user already has the Teams app installed in the %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Teams folder, the MSI installer skips the process for that user.

JimmyYang-MSFT 58,641 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-05-23T07:43:14.767+00:00

Hi @IBN

As above said, you could bulk install Teams using Windows Installer (MSI).
JimmyYang-MSFT 58,641 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-05-27T06:35:27.093+00:00

@IBN

I am checking the status of this case. Please let us know if you would like further assistance.
Meanwhile, if the reply is helpful to you, please try to mark it as an answer to close the thread, it will help others who encounter the same issue and read this thread.
Thank you for your understanding and patience!
JimmyYang-MSFT 58,641 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-06-02T10:13:23.83+00:00

@IBN

Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. If you have any further updates on this issue, please feel free to post back.

Answer 2

Michael Taylor 60,326

Group policy comes to mind. Refer to this link where possible solutions are provided.

Maria Maio 0 Reputation points

2023-07-12T08:57:41.2766667+00:00

a aplicação é de utilidade publica para articulação com amigos.

Answer 3

Martin Martinka 10

Why should be created a copy of whole application for each user ?

Brian Chang 10 Reputation points

2023-08-26T01:08:23.35+00:00

Frankly ridiculous Teams is set up like this. It clogs up computers with cache files too due to this design.
Tomasz Biliński 5 Reputation points

2024-04-10T07:29:38.6766667+00:00

To force users to buy new, bigger disks.
I have 25 students accounts on each computer. Imagine amount of waste/garbage/redundant data stored on each :/

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