Restoring Teams meeting add-in in Outlook

I had kind of weird situation few days ago, when Teams meeting add-in in Outlook just disappeared for no visible reason. Not having that add-in in Outlook actually prevents you from scheduling Teams meeting from Outlook, which not a nice situation. You surely can do it directly from Teams calendar, but that might not be so convenient for several reasons. I first tried some common and known troubleshooting steps. I restarted Teams app, as well as Outlook, tried to reinstall Teams, but nothing helped. The only option was to reinstall Office apps, but I was not in the mood for that for several reasons, so I decided to dig deeper into this issue. On another computer, where Teams meeting add-in was present and working, I opened Outlook, switch to Options and opened Add-ins console. There, I was able to locate Teams meeting files location, like you can see on the following screenshot:

TeamsAdd

As you can see, it is located in within AppData folder in your user profile. AppData folder is hidden by deafult, so you need to set folder options to actually see it.

When you browse to the folder where Teams meeting add-in is located you can find install log file. It is called meeting-addin-install-logs. When you open it, you can see what was going on with this add-in. However, you can also find a command that is being executed for Teams add-in installation.

This command is:

regsvr32.exe /s /n /i:user "C:\Users\userprofilename\AppData\Local\Microsoft\TeamsMeetingAddin\1.0.20077.4\x64\Microsoft.Teams.AddinLoader.dll"

So, I closed the Outlook and I ran command prompt with elevated privileges, and executed this command. After I got command prompt back again, I restarted the Outlook and – Teams add-in was there again Smile.

Take care!

Kako da koristite Teams u školama i vrtićima

Kako je prethodni post sa uputstvima za kreiranje i korištenje besplatnog personalnog Teams tenanta imao jako veliku posjećenost, preko svih mojih očekivanja, nastavljamo u sličnom tonu, za opšte dobro Smile.

Kako sam primijetio da se obrazovne institucije na vrlo različite načine snalaze sa online nastavom, neke sa Teams-om, neke bez Teams-a, odlučio sam da se još malo pozabavim kreiranjem uputstava. Inicijalno, na to me je potakla želja da jednom vrtiću pomognem da se preko Teams-a djeca druže sa učiteljicama. Nakon kreiranja i konfiguracije EDU O365 A1 tenanta, te podešavanja Teams platforme, shvatio sam da korištenje ove platforme treba nekako približiti i učiteljicama a i roditeljima djece, kako bi se online druženja uspješno odvijala. Očekivano, vrlo malo njih je imalo raniji kontakt sa ovom platformom. To je rezultiralo sa uputstvima koja postavljam u ovom postu i na osnovu kojih je pomenuti vrtić uspješno uspostavio online druženja. Jedno je namijenjeno organizatorima sastanaka na Teams-u, a drugo onima koji se na Teams spajaju kao korisnici. Uputstva su pravljena za vrtić, ali sam ih naknadno malo generalizirao, kako bi se mogla lako koristiti i za škole.

Pošto me je dosta ljudi pitalo za ovo, postavljam ih ovdje i iskreno se nadam da će nekome pomoći u ovoj, za sve nas neočekivanoj situaciji. Uputstva ne sadrže dio koji se odnosi na kreiranje Teams-a tenanta na Office 365 A1 paketu – to je dio koji će svakako odraditi neko u IT-u. Srećom, i ta procedura nije teška i dosta lako se završi. Ako imate problema sa ovim, slobodno se javite, pokušat ću pomoći.

Uputstvo za organizatore Teams sastanaka

Uputstvo za učesnike Teams sastanaka

Link za besplatan trial Office 365 A1