i'm sure i know the answer to this already but wit...
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Andrew Gresbach
09/24/2024, 1:10 PMi'm sure i know the answer to this already but with the new Teams client is there any way to centrally control settings like autostart , dark/light theme? or is it still all a b.s. json file locally thats a pain to manage and they want end users to just handle everything
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Dennis
09/24/2024, 1:13 PMJSON file (app_settings.json) located in %localappdata%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\
You can use a powershell script or WEM JSON action to edit the file like this:
# Register MS Teams AppX Package for userAdd-AppPackage -Register -DisableDevelopmentMode "$ENV:TeamsVersionPath\AppXManifest.xml" -EA SilentlyContinue# Define the json file location$TeamsConfig = "$ENV:LocalAPPDATA\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\app_settings.json"# Make a backup of the json fileCopy-Item -Path $TeamsConfig -Destination "$TeamsConfig.bak" -Force# Read the content$jsonContent = Get-Content -Path $TeamsConfig -Raw# Replace the values$jsonContent = $jsonContent -replace '"open_app_in_background":true', '"open_app_in_background":false'$jsonContent = $jsonContent -replace '"keep_app_running_on_close":true', '"keep_app_running_on_close":false'# Save the modified json fileSet-Content -Path $TeamsConfig -Value $jsonContent -ForceDennis
09/24/2024, 1:20 PMAutostart:
HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModel\SystemAppData\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TeamsTfwStartupTask
State (DWORD) = 0
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Andrew Gresbach
09/24/2024, 1:21 PMoh nice so you can use that reg key for that instead of screwing w/ the json possibly?
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Dennis
09/24/2024, 1:25 PMAutostart can be managed with the regkey, other settings with the JSON file.
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Andrew Gresbach
09/24/2024, 1:25 PMok good to know thank you!
Andrew Gresbach
09/24/2024, 1:25 PMwhy they make an enterprise tool but don't give admins a way to manage settings in group policy or intune is still pretty ridiculous
Andrew Gresbach
09/24/2024, 1:26 PMi make sure to bring that up on every MS account call that we have when they try and promote things like "hey your avatar can now have a top hat" or something like that 😂
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Ray Davis
09/24/2024, 1:45 PMThe whole light/dark theme is tricky. Looks like when you switch it the only thing I seen modified in the json file is the "main_window_state":1"
0 seems to be light and 1 seems to be dark.
but again, that is a quick compare on the files and def seems wrong lol. I am sure it's captured somewhere else. I just havent dug down that far on things like that.
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c4rm0
09/24/2024, 1:47 PManything for "On close keep the application running" ? i used to configure this via the desktop-config json
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Ray Davis
09/24/2024, 1:52 PMIt’s above
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c4rm0
09/24/2024, 2:36 PMoh yeah didnt read that far up 👍 the powershell script listed does it need to run at userlogon or at process start ?
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Dennis
09/24/2024, 2:45 PMThe json file will be generated after the first start of Teams. I’m sure after that, its sufficient to run the script at userlogon.
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Andrew Gresbach
09/24/2024, 2:46 PMi do remember its something that you can't change things while teams is running. really can't believe they've done 2 revisions on the Teams client and this is the best option they've come up w/ for this
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c4rm0
09/24/2024, 2:53 PMThanks will use Ivanti UWM and use a if file exists condition %localappdata%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\app_settings.json and if it does exists then run the powershell script above that should do the trick
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Ray Davis
09/25/2024, 5:39 PMYou can stage them ahead of time, but it's 50/50 at times that I seen. I just do what @Dennis does here.
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c4rm0
10/02/2024, 10:57 AMThats how i have done it was surprised the update text file option in ivanti allowed me to manipulate the json file. It seems to be working as option isnt selected and when i check the json file its changed
c4rm0
10/02/2024, 11:29 AMthat will sort it once the app_settings.json file exists after first run of ms teams but is there a way to set it so the custom app_settings.json is configured at first launch for all users? i renamed app_settings.json to app_settings.bak simulating a first run and relaunched ms teams and app_settings.json got autocreated automatically but my appsense config didnt capture it in time to edit it as the app_settings.json file didnt exist at the time. The 2nd launch was fine it modifed the app_settings.json as required. Could i create the app_settings.json manually if it doesnt exist or copy it in if it doesnt exist ? or would that break ms teams as its created automatically
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Ray Davis
10/02/2024, 11:54 AMI tried doing this with WEM and couldn’t get it to work. But in the classic teams it would. So it’s worth a shot and testing to see on your side. I think @Dennis gave it a shot as well.
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Dennis
10/02/2024, 1:15 PMYes, I also tried it and it didn’t work well.
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Andrew Gresbach
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