When installing Teams you cannot use the defaults, because it will run the user installation and Teams will be installed into the user’s %appdata% folder, which won’t fly for a master image. Install Teams properly to your master image The truth is VMware solution is not yet certified but does it really matter? Teams is application as any other – it will run on Horizon virtual desktop. We launched a beta of Teams optimization in October 2019 ( ). As companies are shifting to Teams we are shifting as well. Something we did for a long time for Skype for Business. Is that really so?įirst of all what is this certification about – it’s about optimizing the audio/video traffic. Looks like the marketing department of Citrix invested a lot of effort to spread the word that VMware Horizon is not certified by Microsoft to run Teams.Ĭreating the impression that running Teams on Horizon virtual desktop (VDI) is impossible.

This post will be a “quick tip” how to speed up your logon time for your user, because we will install Teams properly to the master/golden image. This is not the way how to run Teams on Horizon. I’ve seen a couple of implementation where Teams are installed during user logon every single time (because of the nature of non-persistent instant clones). Recently I’ve been in many conversations about Teams and running them on top of Horizon virtual desktop.

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