How can I remotely install the Amazon Chime Windows client on my user's desktops?

IT Admins can use scripts to install the Amazon Chime Windows client on their user's desktop. There are many ways to deploy applications (various software solutions). Below is an example of this could be accomplished using a Windows cmd script:

1. Get the latest version of the Amazon Chime Windows client from https://clients.chime.aws/win/latest.
2. Rename the latest version of the Amazon Chime installation file to Chime.exe and mount it on a network drive (e.g. \\domain\enterprise\ClientApps\AmazonChime\Chime.exe)
3. Use cmd and run
   IF NOT EXIST %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Chime\Chime.exe \\domain\enterprise\ClientApps\AmazonChime\Chime.exe /verysilent

Make sure your users are invited to your Team (see the Amazon Chime Administration documentation for more details: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime/latest/ag/manage-...) or that you have claimed your email domain and assigned your user's permissions in an Amazon Chime Enterprise Account (see the Amazon Chime Administration documentation for more details: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime/latest/ag/manage-...).

Once installed users can access the Amazon Chime application and sign in using their work email address. If they haven't created an Amazon.com account and you are NOT using Active Directory, they should follow the steps provided in the Getting Started flow ( https://aws.amazon.com/chime/getting-started) which walks through the steps to create the Login with Amazon account, grant access for Amazon Chime to that account and then verify the user's email address).

Once the Amazon Chime Windows client is installed, users with Pro permissions can install the Amazon Chime for Outlook Add-in from within the Amazon Chime Windows client by navigating to Meetings > Schedule a meeting > Schedule with Outlook.

If you would prefer to remotely install the Amazon Chime for Outlook Add-in, you can build a script and use the executable that was installed with the Amazon Chime Windows client in the steps above.

1. First, a little housekeeping. In order to avoid a number of issues with the Outlook Add-in install (mostly related to conflicts with other Outlook Add-in tools delivered from other application providers) we require that prior to running the Amazon Chime for Outlook Add-in setup.exe that you use your remote deploy tool or create a script to run with elevated permissions and rename the VSTOInstaller.exe.config to something like VSTOInstaller.exe.config.old
   
   The VSTOInstaller.exe.config is usually in one of the two locations
   "\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VSTO\10.0\VSTOInstaller.exe.config"
   "\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VSTO\10.0\VSTOInstaller.exe.config"
   
   
2. Then, as the user, run the Amazon Chime for Outlook Add-in installation from %AppData%/Chime/Plugin/setup.exe.
3. Returning to the script with elevated permissions, rename the VSTOInstaller.exe.config.old back to VSTOInstaller.exe.config