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New Teams on terminal servers
DavidYorkshire - I'm also trying to get New Teams working on RDS environment atleast at the same level as Classic Teams (no video conferencing). As you and others have reported, there often is an "Update" button on the title bar but clicking it does nothing. In my case checking the version of New Teams, it appears that it is actually updated. My New Teams shows the "Update" button but checking its version (Settings -> About Teams), its fully updated. Go here for update history: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/teams-app-versioning
Separate of that issue, we're also seeing that New Teams randomly closes, sometimes several times a day. This can be troubling since the Tray icon remains until you mouse over it, then it disappears. Users then need to manually restart Teams.
davidtg I have managed to stop the issue with Teams closing itself multiple times a day on RDS (while it fails to update Teams itself or the Outlook plugin) by adding the earlier suggested GP settings (allow all trusted apps to install, allow deployment operations in special profiles) as well as
Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Installer: Set Enabled and set Disable Windows Installer to never.
Update button is there this morning in Teams and in the next maintenance window i'll manually run that and see what happens, and also probably do the full removal and DISM install method suggested by Jeff.