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ChristianBergstrom
Jan 13, 2021Silver Contributor
Force Teams desktop client update
Hi all, I've recieved several questions about this and I'm also seeing too many topics about it here in the community. We all know about the update process for Teams as described here https://d...
- Feb 06, 2021
I would suggest you check out the recently shared blog that explains a little about the update process at Why do I not see a feature but my colleague does? - Release Processes Microsoft Teams.
As explained it's entirely normal to have different versions while deployments are happening slowly, things are a little complex at the moment due to some delays, an apparent rollback and new versions through TAP and Public Preview. So if your users are guests in other tenants that may be in TAP you could be getting versions from there, I'm a guest in the microsoft tenant so my versions vary wildly.
As PDSDavid correctly explained the Machine Wide installer is more like a stub to create the installation for each user. Also the regular msi will be a little behind the newest version you may see, it trails rollout and doesn't lead.
It is quite unlikely that any specific build would cause the issues you describe, and that would seem to be largely verified by it remaining after a reinstall. I would be looking into driver versions perhaps.
Teams update process is unorthodox in enterprise, more like a consumer app, but this is deliberate from Microsoft to manage the far faster pace of change in what is really a web application in a wrapper. In my experience across Teams at many organisation it is very robust, the only issues I've seen are in locations where network restrictions are preventing access to the download service. Microsoft were planning to provide some more admin control, allowing you to control the day of the week and so on, but I think this has been pushed down the list due to priority works to support Teams being used by schools during the pandemic.
brendan1000
Aug 05, 2022Copper Contributor
Hi Christian
I have the update loop problem and was reading your post - it mentions to copy the latest version in the link below and hit enter - cant see the link to paste it in?
Thanks
Howard
Aug 05, 2022
brendan1000 Hey, the conversation is quite old so some links have been terminated. But you can simply go via this for example https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/master/defconfig and copy one of them to your browser.
Bear in mind this isn't an official way of updating the Teams client but rather to force an installation of another version. From my experience you'll return to your standard update ring after the automatic update interval has been triggered as explained here Teams updates - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs
But for now and for testing purpose go for it.