For anyone needing to package Teams 2.x in an App Layer that support is now available in the public version of 2403 so just download the latest update.

Is this the only change? Any chance of updated documentation?

Now you’re asking for a lot. Im sure it will happen. Remember you can always give feedback they take that seriously

@Rob Zylowski can you clarify if we still need to place a user exclusion file in the OS layer if we move to putting teams in an app layer? or does the userexclusion file go in the app layer?

Hey Paul I dont know what the use exclusion is can you explain that

Sure. in the documentation it says need to create a userexclusion file if installing teams 2.1 in the OS layer. https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-app-layering/4/known-issues#microsoft-teams-2x

Got it. They can go in the app layer.

Hi! Just wanted to check if teams 2.1 launches after the installation in app layer in W2k19? already added the user exclusion and also enabled sideloading. Teams get installed but it doesn't launch after the installation. Thanks!

Haven't tried on 2019 Are you using the 2402 VDA?

Hi Rob. We're using 2203 LTSR CU3 VDA. Teams also doesn't show in Start menu in the published layered image. Already installed FsLogix hotfix 4 as well.

are you using it as a published app or from a hosted shared Desktop? If it the latter you need hotfix for cu3 or to wait for cu4. Also i heard Microsoft has a bug where it doesnt show up in the start menu ill look for that

We're using it from a hosted shared desktop. Thank you so much, Rob. Will continue working on it and provide updates as well.

@Ace G Ok I tested it in an app layering on 2019 and of course mine works as expected. for me I have the icon in the start menu and it works fine. I did talk to the engineers and they say they have seen that issue. What worked for them was to reset this key on the registry just beware this will reset the windows logon start tasks and logons will take longer. So test a bunch first before you use this. reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer /v DisableAppInstallsOnFirstLogon /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Hi @Rob Zylowski. Thank you so much for the update and testing. Will do test this out and keep you posted.

Hope it works for you

Hi Rob. Teams v2.1 is now showing in the published image. However we're unable to launch and getting the error Failure to instantiate storage folder C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache for package MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe with Error Code: -2147024809 As per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/troubleshooting-known-issues, resolution is to install latest fslogix version. We have installed FsLogix 2210 hotfix 4 (2.9.8884.27471) but still the same. Will try to search more further and update again. Thanks again for the help.

Yea it would be nice if this teams change was easier. Make sure you dont have anything conflicting wiht that folder in your redirections.xml

Was able to make it work, found a discussion in ms forums. mentioned that this key needs to be added for w2k19 with fslogix: HKLM\SOFTWARE\FsLogix\Profiles Value Name : InstallAppxPackages Value Type : REG_DWORD Value data : 0x0 (0) The value is not present in registry and by default it's value is "1". Thanks again for your help, @Rob Zylowski 🙂

Excellent glad you figured it out