By Andrew Armstrong 
Windows Live Meeting — A Retired Microsoft Product
Windows Live Meeting was Microsoft’s online meeting and conferencing client from the mid-to-late 2000s, and it was retired years ago — first folded into Office Live Meeting and then fully superseded by Skype for Business, which has itself now been retired in favour of Microsoft Teams. There’s no current official download for the Windows Live Meeting client, and it won’t install or run reliably on modern versions of Windows even if you do track down an old copy. If you’re looking for the modern equivalent — deploying an online meeting client across an organisation via Group Policy or Configuration Manager — Microsoft Teams is the current product, and the Teams desktop client can be deployed via its MSI installer (available direct from Microsoft) with standard silent install switches, making it a straightforward drop-in for the kind of mass deployment this post was originally about. If you’re maintaining a legacy environment that genuinely still depends on Live Meeting for a specific reason, that’s a strong signal it’s time to plan a migration off it — it receives no updates, no security fixes, and no support from Microsoft.Deploying Its Modern Replacement: Microsoft Teams (Updated for 2026)
If you’re setting up mass deployment for an online meeting client today, the Teams desktop client’s MSI installer isn’t quite the same drop-in replacement it might first appear. Microsoft ended support for the classicTeams_windows_x64.msi client on 1 July 2024 and pulled the file from availability entirely on 1 July 2025 — that old MSI-based silent-install command is no longer Microsoft’s supported deployment method.
The current tool is teamsbootstrapper.exe, which installs the modern Teams client as an MSIX package rather than the old-style MSI. A typical unattended deployment looks like teamsbootstrapper.exe -p for a per-machine install, with online, offline, and UNC-share deployment variants documented directly by Microsoft — worth checking their current bulk-install guidance before scripting anything against the old MSI path.
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