Windows 10: New MS Teams in a Citrix VDI enviornment is prompting to update and restart. How can I...

We have a citrix non persistent vdi environment. I've downloaded the new ms teams on our base vdi image and deployed to all users using citrix pvs. When a user launches MS Teams it shows a notifcation at the top right hand side that there is an update and restart available. We don't want teams to update nor tell the user to do so. Is there a gpo or teams admin center policy to disable/hide this?

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Shutdown or Log off in a Citrix Windows 10 VDI session

Hi Community gurus,

Hoping you could advise. During the outbreak, most of my teams are working from home and being offered a Windows 10 VDI remote login on Citrix server. In my organisation, there is a token limit and therefore we are not allowed to stay in the session
for too long but only carry out time card logging routine which takes about 5 - 10 minutes depending on individual operations. People who have logged in for prolong period get reported to their mangers who then advise to shorten the session as much as they
can.

Some of them did get reported but mainly was because they did not disconnect the session properly, and still wondered how to disconnect the session properly without occupying the server resources.

Luckily I have never been in the list, and helped myself a quick short which runs "shutdown.exe -s -f -t 0".

This has run perfectly and my Manger did notice I was never in the reporting list and wondered how I did it.

Therefore I shared with my team with this quick shortcut, however, one of my seniors suggested that it's betters to use shutdown.exe -l -f 0

To me, his advice was to log off the session, instead of shutting down, but I wondered that in a shared virtual machine session(s), is there really difference on log off and shutdown as the shutdown command does not appear to shut the server down, but disconnecting
my session so that others have more resources when needed.

Would any one be able to advise?

Thank you in advance.

 

New Teams

Hi,

With regard to your concern, you can add a new team on Cortana by following the steps below:

• Click Cortana or the circle icon.
• Click the Notebook icon, scroll down and click Sports.
• Click Add a team and start typing the name of a team.
• Select the results.

Note: If the the team does not show up in the list you cannot add it to the Notebook. We suggest that you send a feedback using Windows Feedback hub so we can take note of this feature for future updates.

Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.

 

Citrix Receiver Mounting USB Microphones Over Network

Hi there.

Citrix is Horrible -- but I have to use it too to connect to a work W10 Virtual desktop.

Are you sure though that after Citrix creates / logs on to your VDI / remote desktop etc there isn't an app eg something like skype for business that isn't looking for devices such as video / microphones etc-- my Citrix desktop starts SKYPE for business and then Citrix prompts me to connect devices.

Another solution -- just unplug the microphone when you don't need it.

I had trouble also with the last Citrix software update --if your logon works with an earlier version - roll back to it --I think it's V4.9 or something like that.

Cheers
jimbo