![]() Watch your everyone’s smiles and cries when you tell them. Video calls Don’t just hear the cheers, see it Get together with 1 or 24 of your friends and family on a HD video call. Skype is available on phones, tablets, PCs, and Macs. □ If you know better (or worse), please drop a comment. Say hello with an instant message, voice or video call all for free, no matter what device they use Skype on. I confess that I didn’t bother to test if Teams prompted to update 15 minutes after launch without the environment variable set. With this environment variable set, I noticed that Teams did download the update in the background 15 minutes after launch, but did not prompt to install it. Teams seems to check for updates 15 minutes after launch, then every 45 minutes (or does it?), if you take a peek at line 54234 and beyond in /Applications/Microsoft Teams.app/Resources/app.asar: // Check for updates 15 mins after app start and then every 45 minsĬonst CHECK_FREQUENCY = 3 * 60 * 60 * 1000 // TODO (jhreddy) change the following from 3 hours to 45 mins. Note that I have tested/verified that this works with Skype, which seems to check for and download updates on every launch. You can tell if an application uses the Squirrel framework by ctrl+clicking it, choosing Show Package Contents, then looking inside: Thanks also to Rick Heil for the idea of putting this into a Launch Agent. Thanks to the awesome Tim Sutton for uncovering this with the Slack application a while back (before they changed it) – check out his post and please support the issue he raised on Github: To get this to stick, run the above command in a script at login with Outset or put it in a Launch Agent, like this one (copy to /Library/Launch Agents):Ĭom. You’ll notice that upon restarting, the auto-updating-annoying-behavior will come back. Bear in mind that setting this knocks out automatic updates for all apps that use Squirrel (except those that Nerf that shit so hard).Īll you need to do is run this command, as the current logged in user: /bin/launchctl setenv DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK 1 However, it turns out that it does have an environment variable we can set. It isn’t possible to disable this via managed preferences or a configuration profile as the Squirrel framework doesn’t provide a preference domain or preference for it. If we’re packaging and deploying these applications (which we normally would be in the environments we manage), then they’re usually owned by root and can’t be modified by standard user accounts. This is undesirable in lab/managed environments where users typically aren’t local administrators, as they’re often presented with a dialog like this, which they can’t do much with, other than ask IT for help: With version 8.x of Skype and since the debut of Teams, Microsoft have been using the Squirrel framework to manage automatic updates of these applications.
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