microsoft-teams: How can we update the app of all users ? Lack of functionality plus issue

Question

We have a published app in the Teams App Store.

And we are updating valid domains list from time to time (Adding new valid domains). So we have to be sure that all users have latest version of the app. If someone has old version of the app (without this valid domain name) they will not be able to open that site in task module window. It is very important to keep the app updated.

So as we expected users are experiencing issues with valid domain names. And the simple question "which app version does user have" led us to next issues: lack of a basic functionality on Mobile versions of the Teams app and a bug on the Desktop/Browser versions of the Teams app.

Mobile apps: There's just no way of getting app version. Or at least we haven't found it. Desktop/Browser apps: There's 'About' tab with the description of the app and it's version. But in our case the text is long and the section is not scrollable so users can't scroll up and get app version. Check the screenshot below

Is there a way of updating the app for all our users of all tenants? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

@Oleksa, @Hilton - Process of updating the version of the app is similar to how you submit the app initially to store.

Teams does not force users to update to latest available version of the App but it shows small banner with the message "latest version of the app is available" which user has to go and update to the newer version.

I am surprised, @Hilton did not have this question till now:)

Answer 2

As of (19/1/2021), You can only upgrade an app on desktop and not on mobile. Upgrading the app on desktop will automatically do the same on mobile.