Dec 09 2020 10:33 AM
Teams on VDI 2x2 Gallery View feature will enable to view up to four attendees videos in 2x2 Gallery View on VDI clients from Citrix, VMWare when Teams client in VDI optimized mode.
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Product, workload, or area |
Dependency (Yes/No) |
If yes, version requirements and other dependencies |
Exchange |
No |
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Sharepoint, files |
No |
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Skype for Business |
No |
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Outlook add-in |
No |
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Azure AD |
No |
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OneDrive |
No |
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Office |
No |
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VDI platforms |
Citrix or VMWare environment prerequisites for Optimization |
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Windows 10 |
macOS |
iOS |
Android |
Linux |
Chrome |
Firefox |
Safari |
Edge |
Internet Explorer |
Yes |
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Video quality might get affected with multiplevideo streams due to network bandwith management issues
Only up to four attendees videos available, no 3x3, 7x7
Screenshare: When user starts screenshare his outgoing video will be stopped and will need to be started again after user stops screensharing.
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Thank you,
Preview Team @Alexander Ivanov
Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams
Dec 28 2020 08:18 AM
Jan 06 2021 09:29 AM
It is great to see that the gallery view is coming to those of us using VDI. At my organisation I am under growing pressure to switch to Zoom because of the video limitation and I need to provide a date when many more videos are going to be an option 3x3 would be great, but ideally 7x7 so that Teams can actually compete with Zoom
Feb 05 2021 10:01 AM
More details on user side configuration steps and user experience with screenshots: https://tomtalks.blog/2021/02/microsoft-teams-vdi-2x2-gallery-view-public-preview-citrix-and-vmware/
Big thanks to @Tom Arbuthnot for great write-up!
Feb 19 2021 11:53 AM
Any news on when Teams on VDI 2x2 Gallery View will be available for production environments? Thank you
Feb 23 2021 06:20 AM
Feb 23 2021 06:30 AM
@Gadget34 We will be posting update in this tread when the feature is rolled out 100% to GA.
Feb 23 2021 06:16 PM
@Alexander Ivanov Thank you. System administrators running VDI environments are facing a great amount of pressure in regards to this feature. Are there still many hurdles before it gets cleared for GA? Can we get an rough estimate? Q1? Q2? Q3? Q4? 2022?
Mar 01 2021 01:22 AM
Mar 02 2021 05:51 AM
Mar 02 2021 06:14 AM
Wow! It does not seem to be working on my side yet but this seems like good news! What version of Microsoft Teams are you running on your virtual environment?
Mar 02 2021 06:23 AM
Mar 02 2021 06:38 AM
We are just using the targeted release.
We have later versions of the CWA but the two I have seen it working in is CWA 2006 and CWA 2009.
The Teams client is 1.3.00.34662. I'm not sure if it particularly matters what version Teams is in my experience.
The VDI version of Teams (which you can find in the logs) that MS seems to update from their side is 1.0.0.2021022224
Users have also noticed the bar down the left side has changed to grey and the icons chance. This is something I have noticed when trying the tech preview before