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Nicolò Manzotti
Iron Contributor
May 11, 2020

Install apps on behalf of users (in preview)

In this article:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-app-setup-policies

 

I see references to a preview feature allowing to install apps on behalf of users from the Team's admin center. My tenant is in First Release, however, I cannot see the feature where it is supposed to be (i.e. in "Teams apps > Setup policies" I can see only "Pinned apps", no sign of "Installed apps").

 

I have tried to search for further information in the Message Center, Microsoft 365 roadmap and Teams Tech Community, without any success.

 

Looking at the https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness/commits/live?before=0dda90122769385529f78f70b0467848da97e5ec+35&path%5B%5D=Teams&path%5B%5D=teams-app-setup-policies.md, it seems that app "pre-install" has been first introduced at the beginning of last February (see https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness/commit/b87cd8c8b2052a5561c0e78f12ec00734c4f8c2e#diff-908074a68cc38682e03c7181b3aa1fcf). https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness/issues/4637 I'm not the only one wondering about this.

 

Does anyone know something more about this?

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5 Replies

  • StevenC365's avatar
    StevenC365
    MVP
    May 11, 2020

    Nicolò Manzotti Interesting question, the Installed for User feature is not yet generally available, I assume it's some kind of private preview with select clients. Teams does not use the First Release concept, that won't get you anything sooner.

    Pinning an app will make it obvious to users, but it will only install (request consent) when they first use it.

    • Nicolò Manzotti's avatar
      Nicolò Manzotti
      Iron Contributor
      May 11, 2020

      ChristianBergstrom the problem is that in the "Setup" policies I only see "Pinned apps": I can't see "Installed app".

       

      This screenshot is from the documentation:

       

       

       

      This is from my Teams admin centre (I'm sorry about it being in Italian):

       

       

      The doc page says the feature is in "Preview", however, I can't find any information on how to access the preview (and my tenant is already in "First release" mode).