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Step 1: Check If Microsoft Teams Launched in Optimized Mode; Step 2: Check If the Microsoft Teams Device Settings Show the Local Device Names from the Client. The Media Optimization for Microsoft Teams feature redirects audio calls, video calls, and viewing desktop shares for a seamless experience.

 

– Microsoft Teams VDI Optimization for VMware Horizon – The Tech Journal

 

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Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Assign the AllOff policy to all users in your organization who use Teams in a virtualized environment. To assign the DisallowCalling calling policy and the AllOff meeting policy to a user:. If you have an existing implementation of Teams on VDI with chat and collaboration in which you had set user-level policies to turn off calling and meeting functionality, and you’re migrating to Teams with AV optimization, you must set policies to turn on calling and meeting functionality for those Teams on VDI users.

You can use the Teams admin center or PowerShell to set and assign calling and meeting policies to your users. It can take some time a few hours for policy changes to propagate. If you don’t see changes for a given account immediately, try again after a few hours. Calling polices : Calling policies in Teams control which calling features are available to users. Teams includes the built-in AllowCalling calling policy, in which all calling features are turned on.

To turn on all calling features, assign the AllowCalling policy. Or, create a custom calling policy to turn on the calling features that you want and assign it to users. Meeting policies : Meeting policies in Teams control the types of meetings that users can create and the features that are available to meeting participants that are scheduled by users in your organization.

Teams includes the built-in AllOn meeting policy, in which all meeting features are turned on. To turn on all meeting features, assign the AllOn policy. Or, create a custom meeting policy to turn on the meeting features that you want and assign it users. To assign the AllowCalling calling policy and the AllOn meeting policy to a user:.

When users connect from an unsupported endpoint, the users are in fallback mode, in which AV isn’t optimized. To disable fallback mode, set the value to 1. To enable audio only, set the value to 2. If the value isn’t present or is set to 0 zero , fallback mode is enabled.

Teams VDI policies are available in the Teams module. These policies are active and enforced on non-optimized VDI environments. We’re working on adding calling and meeting features that are currently only available in non-VDI environments. These might include more admin control over quality, additional screen sharing scenarios, and advanced features recently added to Teams.

Contact your Teams representative to learn more about upcoming features. This is a known issue with Citrix VDA versions and Audio and video quality may be reduced. Talk to your IT admin. If you enable the optimization GPO in the virtual desktop, these clients, although not officially supported, will begin implementing offload. The bugs we found in these clients during beta testing are fixed in Horizon Client for Windows version or later for Horizon 8 or Horizon Client for Windows 5.

VMware strongly recommends using the officially supported versions. For beta testing, VMware published the Horizon Client beta installer for Mac via the beta portal that supports optimization.

VMware recommends that you use the officially supported version, Horizon Client or later for Mac, to get the latest functionality and bug fixes for the Mac client. Similarly, VMware published a beta version of Horizon Client for Linux that supports optimization via the beta portal. VMware recommends using the officially supported version, Horizon Client or later for Linux, to get the latest functionality and bug fixes for the Linux client.

The ports described on that page are required to be opened on the client device. Note : The usual Horizon ports are also required, as detailed in the following documents:. Some organizations might require that the process name of the Teams Optimization Pack be added to a firewall allowlist, to allow communication to the Microsoft Teams Cloud server.

The process name is vmware-remotemks. This is a Microsoft restriction. In certain low-powered clients, users may want to turn off software acoustic echo cancellation to reduce CPU usage. In most cases, VMware recommends using the default configuration, which is designed for optimal audio experience. But if you are having issues with echo, software acoustic echo cancellation can be configured by using a GPO on the Horizon Agent or by setting a registry key on the Horizon Client.

Note that this configuration is only supported on Windows Clients. After setting this policy, you must log out of the Horizon desktop for the GPO policies to take effect. This configuration can also be applied on the Horizon Client for Windows device by setting the following registry key:.

To troubleshoot, start by checking whether Microsoft Teams launched in optimized mode and whether the correct local client device names are being picked up. If so, you can check whether the Microsoft Teams redirection plugin has been installed and check the logs to verify that optimization has been enabled. Procedures for these tasks are described in the following sections:. Figure 9: Version Box for Microsoft Teams. If the registry key is not set, follow the installation guidance for Horizon Agent, as described in Horizon Agent Installation and Configuration.

Also note that you need to log out of the Horizon desktop for the GPO policies to be applied. In the virtual desktop, restart Microsoft Teams to ensure that the correct settings have been applied by the Microsoft Teams client. We recommend enabling the Citrix Profile container and redirecting the per-user directories listed in Per-user installer into the container.

List all the per-user directories into this configuration. For a complete list of verified endpoints, see Thin Clients. For more information, see Prerequisites to install Citrix Workspace app. After the update is complete, restart the Session. Root permission is required. Citrix Viewer app requires access to macOS Security and Privacy preferences for screen sharing to work. If you want to disable Microsoft Teams optimization, run this command in a terminal and restart the Citrix Workspace app:.

This section provides recommendations and guidance to estimate how many users or virtual machines VMs can be supported on a single physical host. The idea is to find out how many users or VMs can be ran on a single piece of hardware running a major hypervisor. This section includes guidance to estimate SSS. Note that the guidance is high level and might not necessarily be specific to your unique situation or environment.

Citrix recommends using this guidance and these simple rules to quickly estimate SSS only. However, Citrix recommends using Login VSI or the load testing tool of your choice to validate results, especially before purchasing hardware or making any financial decisions. To enable optimization for Microsoft Teams, use the Manage console policy described in the Microsoft Teams redirection policy.

This policy is ON by default. In addition to this policy being enabled, HDX checks to verify that the version of the Citrix Workspace app is at least the minimum required version. Microsoft Teams reads the key to load in VDI mode. Loading the API is the first step toward redirection. Exit Microsoft Teams by right-clicking the notification area icon and restarting. Microsoft Teams relies on Media Processor servers in Microsoft for meetings or multiparty calls.

So the network health between the peer and the Microsoft cloud determines the performance of the call. Please refer to Microsoft network connectivity principles for detailed guidelines around network planning. We recommend evaluating your environment to identify any risks and requirements that can influence your overall cloud voice and video deployment.

For support information, see Support. The manner in which this is accomplished will vary depending on the VPN product and machine platform used but most VPN solutions will allow some simple configuration of policy to apply this logic. For more information on VPN platform-specific split tunnel guidance, see this Microsoft article. Citrix minimum recommendations per user are:. About performance, encoding is more expensive than decoding for CPU use at the client machine.

You can hardcode the maximum encoding resolution in the Citrix Workspace app for Linux and Windows. See Encoder performance estimator and Optimization for Microsoft Teams. If you configure an explicit proxy server in the VDA and route connections to localhost through a proxy, redirection fails.

If not, optimization fails. If the branch office is configured to access the internet through a proxy, these versions support proxy servers:. If DNS requests are unsuccessful, P2P calls with outside users and conference calls media establishment fails. This support means that the endpoint must be able to perform DNS resolutions.

Consider a scenario where there is no direct path between the two peers or between a peer and a conference server and you are joining a multi-party call or meeting. The HdxRtcEngine. These ranges include both Transport Relays and media processors, front-ended by an Azure Load Balancer. Call quality depends on the underlying network protocol. Meetings fail. Use this architecture diagram as a visual reference for the call flow sequence. The corresponding steps are indicated in the diagram.

Citrix media engine and Teams. With Direct Routing, you connect your own supported session border controller to the Microsoft Phone System directly without any additional on-premises software. Call queues, transfer, forward, hold, mute, and resume a call are supported. Starting with version , Citrix Workspace app supports dynamic emergency calling. The notification is provided based on the current location of the Citrix Workspace app that runs on the endpoint, instead of the Microsoft Teams client that runs on the VDA.

To enable dynamic emergency calling, the administrator must use the Microsoft Teams Admin Center and configure the following to create a network or emergency location map:. When users start an optimized call using the Microsoft Teams client for the first time, they might notice a warning with the Windows firewall settings. The warning asks for users to allow communication for HdxTeams. You can apply more restrictive rules if you want. You can deploy Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business side by side as two separate solutions with overlapping capabilities.

For more information, see Understand Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business coexistence and interoperability. Examples include island modes and Skype for Business with Microsoft Teams collaboration. Also, Skype for Business with Microsoft Teams collaboration and meetings.

Peripheral access can be granted only to a single application at the time. For example, webcam access by the RealTime Media Engine during a call locks the imaging device during a call. When the device is released, it becomes available for Microsoft Teams.

Optimal audio and video quality require a network connection to the Microsoft cloud that has low latency, low jitter, and low packet loss. However, VMware is working to certify with Microsoft and release their own optimization pack. After turning off features, you can create custom policies that allow the features to be turned on and used by a pilot group of users. This will ensure you have sized your virtual desktops and hypervisor servers to support your use cases.

Microsoft Teams certified headsets with built-in echo cancellation. Microsoft Teams certified cameras. Skype for Business certified peripherals are compatible with Microsoft Teams too. To experience the Microsoft Teams Companion mode join a meeting from your computer then after you join the meeting, open the Microsoft Teams mobile client. In the mobile client, you will see a notification bar displayed asking if you would like to utilize your phone as a companion device for the active meeting.

 
 

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Evolve IP Knowledge Base. Page tree. For Teams AV optimization in VDI environments to work properly, the thin-client device must have access to the internet. If internet access isn’t available at the thin-client device, optimization startup won’t be successful.

This means that the user is in a non-optimized media state. In a dedicated persistent setup, users’ local operating system changes are retained after users log off. For persistent setup, Teams supports both per-user and per-machine installation. In a non-persistent setup, users’ local operating system changes are not retained after users log off.

Such setups are commonly shared multi-user sessions. VM configuration varies based on the number of users and available physical server resources.

For a non-persistent setup, the Teams desktop app must be installed per-machine to the golden image. This ensures an efficient launch of the Teams app during a user session. Using Teams in a non-persistent setup also requires a profile-caching manager for efficient Teams runtime data synchronization. Efficient data synchronization ensures that the appropriate user-specific information such as a user’s data, profile, or settings is cached during the user’s session.

Make sure data in these two folders are synced:. A roaming folder or, if you are using folder redirection, a caching manager is required to ensure that the Teams app has the runtime data and files required to run the application.

This is necessary to mitigate network latency issues or network glitches, which would otherwise cause application errors and a slow experience due to unavailable data and files. There are a variety of caching manager solutions available, such as FSLogix. Consult your caching manager provider for specific configuration instructions.

Excluding these items helps reduce the user caching size to further optimize your non-persistent setup. Before you deploy Teams through Microsoft Apps for enterprise, you must first uninstall any pre-existing Teams apps if they were deployed using per-machine installation. Teams through Microsoft Apps for enterprise is installed per-user.

Teams is also being added to existing installations of Microsoft Apps for enterprise. Microsoft Apps for enterprise doesn’t support per-machine installations of Teams. To use per-machine installation, you must exclude Teams from Microsoft Apps for enterprise. To learn more about Teams and Microsoft Apps for enterprise, see How to exclude Teams from new installations of Microsoft Apps for enterprise and Use Group Policy to control the installation of Teams.

At this point, the golden image setup is complete. This process adds a required registry key to the machine that lets the Teams installer know it is a VDI instance. Without it, the installer will error out, stating: “Installation has failed. Cannot install for all users when a VDI environment is not detected. All users can then uninstall Teams if they have admin credentials. PowerShell script : You can use the Teams deployment cleanup PowerShell script to uninstall Teams and remove the Teams folder for a user.

Run the script for each user profile in which Teams was installed on the computer. There are a variety of virtualized setup configurations, each with a different focus for optimization. For example, a configuration might focus on user density. When planning, consider the following to help optimize your setup based on your organization’s workload needs.

In addition to chat and collaboration, Teams on VDI with calling and meetings is available with supported virtualization provider platforms. Supported features are based on the WebRTC media stack and virtualization provider implementation. The following diagram provides an overview of the architecture. If you currently run Teams without AV optimization in VDI and you use features that are not supported yet for optimization such as Give and take control when app sharing , you have to set virtualization provider policies to turn off Teams redirection.

This means that Teams media sessions won’t be optimized. For steps on how to set policies to turn off Teams redirection, contact your virtualization provider. We recommend that you evaluate your environment to identify any risks and requirements that can influence your overall cloud voice and video deployment. To learn more about how to prepare your network for Teams, see Prepare your organization’s network for Teams.