Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams Bootstrapper system-wide bulk installer
There is a new method for installed the "new" Microsoft Teams. It is described athttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-bulk-install-client. There are multiple parts to this installer. The first is a bash script that downloads the current available files and checks them against the version number downloaded previously. If it is the same it does nothing but if it is newer it updates the wpkg installer script with the new version number. Then wpkg has to execute a batch file that is using powershell to check if the teams appx file is installed. For this to work you will need to adjust your powershell execution policy to allow locally run powershell scripts. Sorry for the convoluted process here but I couldn't immediately think of a better approach to this problem.
There is no way to do a normal uninstall check for the appx files so the batch and powershell files are being executed and passing exit codes through the chain of scripts back to wpkg.
WPKG microsoft-teams.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Thie file generated from tools\update-microsoft-teams.sh and template_microsoft-teams.xml
Manual edits to packages\microsoft-teams.xml will be overwritten.
-->
<packages:packages
xmlns:packages="http://www.wpkg.org/packages" xmlns:wpkg="http://www.wpkg.org/wpkg" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.wpkg.org/packages ../xsd/packages.xsd" >
<package
id="microsoft-teams"
name="Microsoft Teams"
revision="%PKG_VERSION%"
reboot="false">
<variable name="PKG_VERSION" value="24257.205.3165.2029" />
<check
type="execute"
path="%SOFTWARE%\batch_files\check-appx-teams.bat"
condition="exitcodeequalto"
value="1" />
<install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\microsoft-teams\teamsbootstrapper.exe" -p -o "%SOFTWARE%\microsoft-teams\MSTeams-x64.msix"' />
<upgrade include='install' />
<remove cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\microsoft-teams\teamsbootstrapper.exe" -x' />
</package>
</packages:packages>
Automated update script
Here is the script that you use to update the installer packages. You'll need to adjust the paths to match your environment. It works for me but your mileage may vary.
update-microsoft-teams-xml.sh
Just to get an idea how this can be done using bash scripting if your wpkg share is on linux using samba, here is my script which checks if there is a newer version of google chrome. Only then it copies the exe and msix files and creates new xml file from template. It substitutes the __VERSION__ and __MSIKEY__ strings, which are extracted from the msi file. Seems like a quick hack to get the strings out of the MSI file, at least it works at the moment.
#!/bin/bash
MAINPATH=Path to wpkg
TMPPATH=$MAINPATH/temp
DESTPATH=$MAINPATH/installers/microsoft-teams
TEMPLATE=$MAINPATH/packages/Templates/template_microsoft-teams.xml
FILENAME=microsoft-teams.xml
TEMPFILE=$TMPPATH/$FILENAME
DESTFILE=$MAINPATH/packages/$FILENAME
teams_msix_routine () {
DLFILE=$1
DLSOURCE=$2$DLFILE.msix
cd $TMPPATH
if [ -f $DLFILE.msix ]; then
rm $DLFILE.msix
fi
/usr/bin/wget --no-check-certificate $DLSOURCE
RAWSTRINGS=`/usr/bin/unzip -p $DLFILE.msix AppxManifest.xml | /usr/bin/strings | /usr/bin/grep -s -o -E Version=\"[[:digit:]]{5}\.[[:digit:]]{3}\.[[:digit:]]{4}\.[[:digit:]]{4}\" | tr -d 'Version=' | tr -d '"' \
`
echo msix version is $RAWSTRINGS
for k in ${RAWSTRINGS} ; do
unset SUBSTRING;
SUBSTRING=`expr match "$k" '\([[:digit:].]\{19\}\)' `
if [ -n "${SUBSTRING}" ] ; then
MSTVERSION="$SUBSTRING";
break
fi
done
echo Version: $MSTVERSION
if [ -z "$MSTVERSION" ] ; then
echo no version found
exit 2
fi
# create xml file from template
sed -e "s/__VERSION__/${MSTVERSION}/" <$TEMPLATE | sed -e "s/__VERSION__/${MSTVERSION}/" >$TEMPFILE
diff -wB $TEMPFILE $DESTFILE >/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
# no difference
echo not newer
rm $DLFILE.msix
exit 0
fi
echo copying files
mv $DLFILE.msix $DESTPATH/$DLFILE.msix
cp $TEMPFILE $DESTFILE
}
teamsbootstrapper_routine () {
DLFILE=$1
DLSOURCE=$2$DLFILE.exe
cd $TMPPATH
if [ -f $DLFILE.exe ]; then
rm $DLFILE.exe
fi
/usr/bin/wget --no-check-certificate $DLSOURCE
RAWSTRINGS=`/usr/bin/7z l $DLFILE.exe | /usr/bin/strings | /usr/bin/grep -x "^FileVersion:.*$" | tr "\n" " " `
echo Bootstrapper version is $RAWSTRINGS
for k in ${RAWSTRINGS} ; do
unset SUBSTRING;
SUBSTRING=`expr match "$k" '\([[:digit:].]\{11\}\)' `
if [ -n "${SUBSTRING}" ] ; then
TBSVERSION="$SUBSTRING";
break
fi
done
echo Version: $TBSVERSION
if [ -z "$TBSVERSION" ] ; then
echo no version found
exit 2
fi
echo copying $DLFILE.exe to $DESTPATH/$DLFILE.exe
mv $DLFILE.exe $DESTPATH/$DLFILE.exe
}
teamsbootstrapper_routine "teamsbootstrapper" "https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/production-teamsprovision/lkg/"
teams_msix_routine "MSTeams-x64" "https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/production-windows-x64/enterprise/webview2/lkg/"
Template file
This template file is stored under packages/Templates/template_microsoft-teams.xml and is used to update the packages/microsoft-teams.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Thie file generated from tools\update-microsoft-teams.sh and template_microsoft-teams.xml
Manual edits to packages\microsoft-teams.xml will be overwritten.
-->
<packages:packages
xmlns:packages="http://www.wpkg.org/packages" xmlns:wpkg="http://www.wpkg.org/wpkg" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.wpkg.org/packages ../xsd/packages.xsd" >
<package
id="microsoft-teams"
name="Microsoft Teams"
revision="%PKG_VERSION%"
reboot="false">
<variable name="PKG_VERSION" value="__VERSION__" />
<check
type="execute"
path="%SOFTWARE%\batch_files\check-appx-teams.bat"
condition="exitcodeequalto"
value="1" />
<install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\microsoft-teams\teamsbootstrapper.exe" -p -o "%SOFTWARE%\microsoft-teams\MSTeams-x64.msix"' />
<upgrade include='install' />
<remove cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\microsoft-teams\teamsbootstrapper.exe" -x' />
</package>
</packages:packages>
Batch
This file is exectuted by wpkg and if it returns '1' the package is installed and if it returns '0' it isn't. I've saved this file as "installers/batch_files/check-appx-teams.bat"
Script
%COMSPEC% /c copy /y "%SOFTWARE%\powershell\check-appx-teams.ps1" "C:\Windows\Temp\check-appx-teams.ps1"
%COMSPEC% /c powershell -File "C:\Windows\Temp\check-appx-teams.ps1"
exit /b %ERRORLEVEL%
Powershell
This powershell script is copied to the local machine then executed. I've saved it as 'installers/powershell/check-appx-teams.ps1'. You need to set your system's powershell execution policy to allow this to run.
Script
if ((Get-AppPackage -AllUsers).Name -like "*MSTeams*") {$ECODE=1} else {$ECODE=0}
exit $ECODE
Microsoft Teams - older version of installer procedure
This is a silent installer for the teams all users installer.
Teams for all intents and purposes must run it's own installer for each individual user. Microsoft #1
The teams installer available from Microsoft only installs an installer that gets autorun for each user. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment
There are people doing workarounds for this but it's long and involved.
The installers installer also seems to fork so the file version check (only way to see if it's there, it doesn't show up in uninstall list until it's installed for the user) so some creativity is needed to get around that. Thanks to the java wpkg package dev for the syntax to use powershell to get around it.
The &apos is vitally important and not a mistake don't delete or convert it
WPKG Package
Teams 1.3
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<packages:packages xmlns:packages="http://www.wpkg.org/packages"
xmlns:wpkg="http://www.wpkg.org/wpkg" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.wpkg.org/packages ../xsd/packages.xsd">
<package id="microsoft-teams" name="Microsoft Teams" revision="%PKG_VERSION%" reboot="false" priority="100">
<variable name="PKG_VERSION" value="1.3.00.21759" />
<check type="file" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Teams Installer\Teams.exe" value="%PKG_VERSION%" />
<!-- watch out for the $apos; it's important and can't be removed, the escaping arount the quotes is also important -->
<install cmd='powershell -executionpolicy bypass -noprofile -command "Start-Process C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe -ArgumentList '/q /i \"%SOFTWARE%\Teams\%PKG_VERSION%\Teams_windows_x64.msi\"'" -wait' />
<upgrade include='install' />
<remove cmd='powershell -executionpolicy bypass -noprofile -command "Start-Process C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe -ArgumentList '/q /x \"%SOFTWARE%\Teams\%PKG_VERSION%\Teams_windows_x64.msi"'" -wait' />
</package>
</packages:packages>