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The New Teams version (sometimes also called Teams 2.0) will become the new standard for Microsoft’s communication platform from July 1, 2024. On October 1, 2024, the Classical Teams client in the VDI context will reach its end of support and, according to the latest news, its end of availability date on July 1, 2025. These end dates have been adjusted several times in recent weeks.
Update of the existing article to the latest requirements and features.
The standard installation that the user can perform, e.g. via the Microsoft365 Apps portal, is a user-based installation. In the Citrix environment, this is only recommended for desktop operating systems (pooled or personal desktop).
A User-Based Installation can be detected very quickly in the User Profile, because data are then located under AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams.
This type of installation in a worker with server operating system has many cons:
Let’s just start with the official definition from the Microsoft documentation:
Hybrid Azure AD Join: Joined to on-premises AD and Azure AD requiring organizational account to sign in to the device.
This means that after the device is Hybrid Azure AD joined, it behaves the same as any other computer connected to Active Directory.
Sign in with an Active Directory account is required.
User credentials are verified against an Active Directory domain controller.
Group Policy objects for users & computers read from the domain controller are applied automatically.
After the Active Directory connection process is complete, additional steps are performed asynchronously in the background to register the device in Azure AD as well.
Continue reading “Why a Windows Server 2019 VDI should be Hybrid Azure AD joined”Recently, I have been involved more and more in projects where Office365 is to be fully implemented in Citrix environments. This means that the customer not only needs the standard Office applications Outlook, Excel and Word, but also wants to use teams and OneDrive.
But this is exactly where we, without additional software, have big problems in non-persistent desktop environments. For example with our profiles (Team Installer stores its data in the profile) or so that the data is downloaded from the Internet every time (excluding OneDrive Sync data in the profile).
However, we have recently been in the fortunate position of being able to use FSLogix “free of charge” for this purpose, if we meet the following requirements:
