Update of MSI download

Massimo_Barga
Copper Contributor
Jun 25, 2021
Eric Marsi where or how did you find this version number?
Since if I go to https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/microsoftteams/msi-deployment I can only get 1.4.00.11161

Thanks
- jdseymour1978
  Brass Contributor
  Jun 26, 2021
  Massimo_Barga
  Exactly my problem. The links in my OP are supposed to be 'placeholder' links to be able to download the latest available version.
  
  Eric Marsi
  I'm not sure how much more you could get wrong:
  
  My OP was asking about the Machine-Wide Teams installer, for updating a VDA environment. As per Microsoft's own instructions to update this, you first have to uninstall the previous version. That does not sound like automatically updating to me.
  
  You also provided a version-specific link to a .EXE binary to download, when I'd specifically asked for the latest version of the .MSI binary. It is all very well posting a link to the latest version at that very moment, but as I said to Massimo above, the whole point of the aka.ms download links (or indeed the link that Massimo refers to) is that they enable you to download the latest production version at any time.
  
  Not really MVP-level knowledge in my humble opinion.
  - James Arber
    MVP
    Jun 30, 2021
    jdseymour1978 Wow, that's a bit harsh.
    
    I can only assume it wasn't meant that way when it was originally written and has translated poorly to text or you were super frustrated at the time.
    
    Whilst I can appreciate your frustration at getting potentially unhelpful information. There is no reason to belittle someone based on their title. Remember that MVP's are admins, just like you. We don't work for Microsoft, we don't have a special "magic book" with everything in it next to us and we spend our free time helping individuals such as yourself for free in our own time.
    
    I can't speak for Eric, but for myself, it was to give back to the community that helped me when I was a wee young sysadmin running exchange 2003.
    
    ---
    
    Anyway, back on topic.
    
    I understand the frustration of working with VDI servers and clients myself having been dealing with it since Lync 2013.
    
    My understanding is one of the main reasons the placeholder is on a specific version is because of the Office365 rollout strategy. With that version being the "safest" version to deploy regardless of tenant status and VDI plugin build.
    
    Your Teams client will update itself depending on many things, including the ring you are on, your tenancies environment/region, the rollout stage on your tenancy/ your office update channel (Preview/Targeted/Current) status etc. None of which can be determined by a simple URL redirect.
    
    (interesting fact, you can kinda get Teams to do weird things by jumping from a TAP tenant to a normal tenant using the same build. Despite flags being set to remove features some weirdness still occurs)
    
    I assume you're already across it, but if your running Teams in a VDI environment you are running the VDI plugin/registry changes as well?
    
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/teams-on-avd
    https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX253754
    
    Hope this helps.
- Eric Marsi
  MVP
  Jun 25, 2021
  The client itself auto-updates. If you simply know the above link, you can replace the client version number in it and get up-to-date files. This came from a production (GA/Ring4) Tenant.
  - Massimo_Barga
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 25, 2021
    As I've supposed..
    But if I click "Check updates" I don't get this version..
    Anyway thanks

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