As I'm sure most people have noticed, the Teams product moves really fast, adding new features and capabilities every couple of weeks. In order to achieve this speed the opportunity for testing the service with different older versions of the client s reduced, which is why it's necessary to allow the clients to update automatically. There is no supported way to prevent updates.

• Resolves an issue with a virtual machine not resuming from paused state after the Mac wakes up. Parallels desktop 13 for mac free.

If this causes issues, for example on VDI, restricted devices you might want to consider using the browser version of Teams in Chrome or Edge. In my organisation my non-admin users can install and update Teams as we trusted it's certificate through our AppLocker policy.

If someone would like to suggest a Long Term Branch for Teams through Uservoice I'm sure the product group would be intersted to see how much demand there would be for such a feature.

To disable Skype’s auto gain control (AGC) for both Mac (5.6.0.143 and later) and PC versions, simply go into your Preferrences > Audio/Video and deselect the Automatic Microphone Control checkbox. Disabling Skype’s echo cancellation mode is not as simple but also not that hard.