I know, that topic for the post sounds like a bad early morning infomercial ("Now with oxygen fighting power!"), but it's true. 🤣
Microsoft just announced that SlimCore optimization is generally available for Teams of VDI sessions.(see New VDI solution for Teams on AVD/Windows 365 environments now generally available - Microsoft Community Hub)
All I needed to do was restart teams (on my AVD session) and I had the SlimCore enabled version of Teams in my VDI session.
I was testing it out and it really works great!
However, it does come with a few caveats (at the time of writing) that you need to be aware of:
- Currently, it only supports Windows end-user devices
See Roadmap for Mac and Linux support - You don't need to install or uninstall the WebRTC client, but it does help to have it installed to bridge the gap between supported and non-supported devices
- Your end-users devices need the latest version of the Windows App or the Remote Desktop Client installed
- You need to have the latest version of New Teams installed (24193.1904.3031.6050 or higher) on your session host(s)
NOTE: You can get the latest version of Teams and the WebRTC client by utilizing this Scripted Action from the Nerdio MSP Sales Engineering GitHub repository. - Depending on your network configuration, you may need to modify your network settings for the ultimate optimization
SlimCore handles both media and signaling, hence you must configure your network to allow IDs 11, 12, 47 and 127. It is critical that you also allow UDP 3478 traffic, as signaling will try to leverage UDP for faster call set up times. Additionally, now you can also apply DSCP markings / QoS on the different modalities (video, audio and screensharing) from Teams Admin Center.
Overall, this is a great improvement to the Teams on VDI experience, and I'm excited to see the future improvements to the Teams VDI experience!
I'd like to hear from the rest of the community their experiences with Teams on AVD adoption.
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