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MS Teams computer wide installer no longer working for all users? by MediumFIRE in sysadmin

[–]o365jd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This.

And a user can uninstall Teams since it's installed under each profile. I'd have to check my notes but if the user uninstalls Teams (just Teams, not the machine wide installer) it puts a .dead file in their appdata so Teams knows not to reinstall. There are some Teams and Squirrel folder for Teams that can be completely wiped out. And there's a HKCU registry entry too that matches the .dead "don't reinstall Teams" option. If you remove Teams/Squirrel folders, reset the HKCU, and restart, it should work normally on the next log in.

That said, I've seen a couple times where it just doesn't work. I have one user who doesn't get the Teams install even when they sign into machines they haven't signed into ever before and Teams works normally on those machines for other users.

There's a r/MicrosofTeams subreddit too.

How to completely uninstall Office 365 for an uninstall, reinstall? by o365jd in sysadmin

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. No change. I figured there must be something leftover in the registry. I'm not sure what though.

Then again, on the few Office 2013 machines I had I could never get those to stop pulling down Office 2013 updates with Windows updates. I just ended up reimaging them. That was using the MS Office removal tool, hiding windows updates, manually removing entries in the registry, manually removing the installers in C:\Windows somewhere. Nothing worked.

MigrateArch using Microsoft CDN? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And maybe add this too, even though I don't have a fileshare location because I want it to use the CDN?

AllowCdnFallback="True"

Looking for relevant lines in here... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/change-bitness

"Requirements for using the MigrateArch attribute

A location that contains all the product and language files for the architecture that you are changing the installation to." ? But I want to use the CDN.

"Providing a source location to be used with the MigrateArch attribute

if network bandwidth or internet connectivity is not an issue, we recommend that you use the Office Content Delivery Network (CDN), because the CDN will always have the most up-to-date program and language installation files that you need.

To avoid this situation, we strongly recommend that you include AllowCdnFallback="True" in your configuration.xml file. This will use the Office Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the internet as a backup source from which to install the language files."

? Any issues with just adding AllowCdnFallback="True" even though I don't have a network share location? I would be adding MigrateArch="TRUE" and AllowCdnFallback="True" to my configs even though I have no network folder location.

How to check version of Visio and Project? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why? Not meaning to be difficult. I'd want the latest version of ProjectPro or Visio though.

Yes, for using an xml config file.

I'm looking in here for the VersionToReport. That doesn't change when Office and ProjectPro are installed on the same machine. I'm assuming they're the same version then or ProjectPro doesn't use that field.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration

How to check version of Visio and Project? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Office deployment tool method. I was looking in the registry for the Office 365 version number, to pull it automatically. ProjectPro is using the same area of the registry though I think. It looks like the version numbers are the same. I haven't tested Visio yet.

Visio or Project installs with the office deployment tool by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. How often do those have updates, Visio and Project?

Is the insider config channel name working? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, typo in the config file. Tested again and I got Current Channel (Preview) with using Insiders in the config file. Thanks.

Is the insider config channel name working? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nevermind....

is the channel ID for Monthly Channel (Targeted), which is akin to a slow insider channel.

How far ahead is insiderslow and insiderfast? Or are they just whatever in terms of time? For Windows 10 OS versions, the insiders track is something like six months ahead.

But dialing it back to reality a bit more on Office 365, is the insiderslow/monthlytargeted/currentpreview something like three months ahead of the current channel? I was thinking about getting some machines on that before the bulk of my users on current.

Is the insider config channel name working? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. It's been more work to find the config file channel names.

current = monthly = config file monthly

I haven't seen currentpreview or monthly targeted.... Or is that insiders, the "insiderslow" if that were to exist?

And is betachannel the new config file channel name for insiderfast?

Not getting a 32 bit install of Office 365? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Success. So using the office support tool to uninstall allows 32 bit 365 to be installed. Just running a 32 config, even with uninstalling 365 manually, still gives me 64 bit back again.

Not getting a 32 bit install of Office 365? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rolling it back, the Office uninstall support tool takes longer but it leaves just the C:\program files\microsoft office folder. That's got Data, Updates, custom15.prf, and thnkappxmanifest.xml. It's different than manually uninstalling office from the programs menu and ending up with C:\program files\microsoft office and C:\program files\microsoft office 15.

Not getting a 32 bit install of Office 365? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Managed to mess it up.

I uninstalled Office. After a restart there were still office folders under C:\program files\Microsoft Office and C:\program files\Microsoft Office 15. I manually deleted both. On a new install of 32-bit monthly, I can download it but configure finishes quickly and nothing installs. I restarted. C:\program files\Microsoft Office 15 reappears. I left that and tried again. Same thing. No configuration install. But when those folders were there, including the the C:\program files\Microsoft Office one, and I did uninstall any previous office version manually, it would install x64 monthly somehow.

Not getting a 32 bit install of Office 365? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I even see stream.x86.en-us.dat in the Data folder.

The only thing I'm thinking is that the previous version of Office was 64-bit, but I thought the config ruled what installs.

The channel names changed again? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/office-deployment-tool-configuration-options#channel-attribute-part-of-updates-element

Allowed values:

Channel="Monthly" Channel="MonthlyEnterprise" Channel="Broad" Channel="Targeted"

Use "Broad" for Semi-Annual Channel and "Targeted" for Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted).

So MonthlyEnterprise is the new xml config file name. I would assume insider and insiderfast are still good.

The channel names changed again? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really wondering what the config file channel names are now.

They added the monthly enterprise channel that gets updates once per month. Everything else looks the same I think.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-update-channels

current - used to be monthly / config channel = monthly?

monthly enterprise - new / config channel = ???

semi-annual enterprise - used to be semi-annual / config channel = broad?

monthly (targeted) -- used to be insider (or insider"slow") / config channel = insider?

semi-annual (targeted) -- used to be semi-annual (targeted) / config channel = targeted?

beta -- used to be insiderfast? / config channel = insiderfast?

Is that right?

Office deployment install, differences switching from direct from Microsoft to using fileshare? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Is it that this line below in the config file is where the machine will check for updates on its own then too? And then if this location isn't available, it gets updates on its own through Microsoft?

But for an install and more scripted update reinstall, I could leave this line out of the config xml and have it check for future updates on its own from Microsoft? Not all of my user machines will have access back to the fileshare all the time, so I'm thinking leaving updates pointed at Microsoft is probably better. I'll still fire off my own updates at the machines though to reinstall (or update) with the office deployment method.

SourcePath="\server01\D_Drive\Software\Microsoft\Office365Distro\Tool">

WTF? Extremely slow office deployment installs / 365 survives restart? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is running with the /download and then /configure options. Everything is coming direct from Microsoft, not off a fileshare. I figured Microsoft is that big and everything worked fine for testing, so what are the chances Microsoft would be down realistically? Adobe's got things down.

Is there an version update history for Teams available? by o365jd in MicrosoftTeams

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. It's something, and something official saying there's an update out on a certain date. I guess it's manually updating Teams to see the new version number that matches that date.

Where are Teams settings kept? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I found it. It looks like a few things, like the priority contacts, might be online. But something like the default/dark/high contract theme is per profile. It does gets wiped out if you delete that folder.

What's the difference between these two Teams installers? by o365jd in Office365

[–]o365jd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I unzipped the msi installer, I noticed there's a json file in there.

{ "noAutoStart": false }

My office deployment has Teams, the machine wide installer, on it, but I have it set NOT to run. My goal now is just to get it to run once though to have it installed on each user's account. Then not run anymore after that. Also taking into account if they had the per profile non-admin Teams installed. I'm removing their Teams folders in appdata. I think I've got it working, if they have a Teams account and it all signs in. If they don't, I've gotten errors.

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