Hi everyone,
I'm trying to automate the full deployment of TeamViewer Host on newly imaged laptops via Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), and I'm running into problems with the automatic assignment and Easy Access not being applied properly.
Here’s what I want: when a laptop is imaged, TeamViewer should be silently installed, automatically assigned to my company account, and Easy Access should be granted — all without any manual intervention. I followed all the steps I could find.
In the TeamViewer Management Console, I created a custom Host module under “Design & Deploy” with the configuration set up exactly as shown in the screenshot I’ve attached: name, group assignment, policy (which allows Easy Access), etc. I saved the assignment configuration and copied the Assignment ID as required. Then I downloaded both the MSI and EXE versions of the module to test.
First, I tried the MSI method using a GPO, as described in a forum post (
How to deploy with easy access already enabled? - TeamViewer Support
): I pushed the MSI to the machine using a startup script with msiexec /i and the CUSTOMCONFIGID, followed by a command to run the assignment with the proper ID. TeamViewer was installed, but nothing was assigned — the device doesn’t appear in the console, and Easy Access is not granted.
Then I tested the EXE method, running the .exe assignment --id <AssignmentID> command directly on a freshly imaged device. Still nothing — no assignment, no Easy Access.
I’ve double-checked that the policy allows Easy Access, the assignment config is correctly created, and the EXE is downloaded from the exact same module. I even tried delaying the assignment command, and creating a second GPO to run it later, just in case the initial install didn’t finish : still no result.
Has anyone managed to get this working reliably, with full zero-touch deployment including Easy Access? Is there anything I’m missing, or are there known bugs/limitations with the assignment via EXE or MSI these days?
Any advice or confirmation would really help. Thanks!
