Installing Company MS Teams in HyperV with Bitlocker

cereberus · 24 Oct 2020

Here is a tip for those of you wanting to use MS Teams on your PC. Many companies expect you to join a domain when using MS Teams and then you give over control of aspects of your PC.

My Company not only expects you to join a domain but also use Bitlocker. I was not prepared to do that on my personal PC but I decided to see if I could do it in a Hyper-V VM as I would only use the VM for Teams and Office 365.

The first hurdle I ran into was that if I joined a domain during setup of Windows and then tried to install Teams, my Company required me to set up a PIN which is no good for a HyperV VM. You cannot use in PIN in a HyperV VM.

However, I only need to use a Company account for MS Teams (and MS Office) without joining a Domain. Unfortunately, once I had joined the domain, too many policy restrictions were in place. So I nuked this installation and reinstalled setting up a local account.

I then ran into the next hurdle as I could not bitlock my VM C drive as it required a TPM and my laptop does not have a TPM. However, after a bit of googling, I discovered you could enable a virtual TPM in HyperV.

So I enabled the TPM, was able to enable Bitlocker and install MS Teams.

I can now use MS Teams on my PC without affecting Host.

Works perfectly.

storageman · 24 Oct 2020

There is more than one way to skin the cat. Good info.

Kari · 25 Oct 2020

@Martin, Teams works really well also in browser, with all features. Have you checked if you could use the web app, instead of installing Teams desktop on your private devices?

URL: https://teams.microsoft.com

Just select Use the web app instead.

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Kari

cereberus · 25 Oct 2020

Kari said:

@Martin, Teams works really well also in browser, with all features. Have you checked if you could use the web app, instead of installing Teams desktop on your private devices?

URL: https://teams.microsoft.com

Just select Use the web app instead.

is greate

and get access to allKari

Yes - it works quite well, but we can only join Company Teams site with the full version and get access to all features.

Now I have it set up in Hyper-V, it is fine - my VM is bitlocked, and app is connected to Company domain, and various ploicy restrictions are in place but it does not affect Host.