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Microsoft Teams progressive web app now available on Linux

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Anupam_Pattnaik
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Nov 07, 2022

We’re excited to announce the general availability of support for the Microsoft Teams progressive web app (PWA) as a feature of our current web client for Linux customers.

 

Linux customers who rely on Microsoft Teams for collaboration and communication needs told us they want the full richness of Teams features available for their users in a secure way. This can now be achieved using the Teams PWA.

 

Additionally, the PWA enables us to ship the latest Microsoft Teams features faster to our Linux customers and helps us bridge the gaps between the Teams desktop client on Linux and Windows. The PWA experience is available for both Edge and Chrome browsers running on Linux.

 

The PWA offers access to more capabilities, including custom backgrounds, gallery view, reactions, the raise-a-hand feature in meetings, as well as large gallery and Together mode views. The PWA also provides desktop-like app features, such as system notifications for chat and channel, a dock icon with respective controls, application auto-start, and easy access to system app permissions.

 

 

The Microsoft Teams PWA for Linux can be used with Conditional Access configuration, applied through Endpoint Manager, to enable Linux users to access the Teams web application while securely using Edge. This helps organizations use an industry-leading, unified endpoint management solution for Teams from Linux endpoints with security and quality built in.


We encourage our Teams Linux users to switch over to the PWA to get the latest Linux features and a desktop-like experience. Stay tuned for the latest news on the Microsoft Teams blog.

Updated Nov 04, 2022
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  • ngath's avatar
    ngath
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 07, 2022

    Works for Windows if you use a user agent switcher to tell it that you are running Linux.

     

    Can we have multiple Teams windows open in the PWA? 

    Doesn't look like it.

     

     

    Really, will the PWA version of Teams be as robust as the desktop versions for Windows and Mac, like the Linux client is now, or will it be a stripped down iPad-esque version that the current Teams website is, more or less?

    Seems to me like there isn't much of a difference between this and the current web app.

     

    https://web.dev/learn/pwa/installation/

    • https://web.dev/learn/pwa/installation/
    • https://web.dev/learn/pwa/installation/
    • https://web.dev/learn/pwa/installation/
    • https://web.dev/learn/pwa/installation/

     

  • Benmhall's avatar
    Benmhall
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 07, 2022

    I have questions and haven’t seen any solid information with answers.

    1. How will this work for chats if the app isn’t running in the foreground? (Can the PWA version park in the background reasonably well?)
    2. Can we have multiple Teams windows open in the PWA? 
      • Can we pop out individual chats in Teams so that there may be a half-dozen Teams windows open? This works on the desktop app now
      • Can meetings run in a dedicated window so that communication continues?
    3. How will phone calls work? We are shifting to Teams-based VOIP at work. Can I receive a call over Teams PWA while also still communicating with my team via Chats? This works on the existing app.
    4. Really, will the PWA version of Teams be as robust as the desktop versions for Windows and Mac, like the Linux client is now, or will it be a stripped down iPad-esque version that the current Teams website is, more or less?

     

    Given that Linux users were provided with a mostly great desktop app for what is an Electron app, this feels like bait-and-switch. I suspect that this won’t affect too many users, but that the users it affects will be justifiably noisy about what I suspect will be a major feature regression.

     

    With Teams on Linux, Microsoft essentially said “trust us, we get it, this is important.” Now that people are (sometimes reluctantly) shifting from Zoom or Slack, this feels to me like the rug is being pulled out from beneath us.

     

    • Eliot_Cole's avatar
      Eliot_Cole
      Iron Contributor
      Jan 21, 2026

      There are two ways to achieve multiple clients:

      1. Install the PWA multiple times with different names.
      2. Install the PWA on Firefox and use the Mozilla Multi-Account Containers extension

      I have posted about my success on the latter in another comment, mate.

      • mckenzm2's avatar
        mckenzm2
        Copper Contributor
        Jan 21, 2026

        Good to know.  It is harder to run three different versions of Edge lately. But multiple chromium browsers worked. I am finding that the PWA app is forcibly renamed now as well. 

  • schmitch's avatar
    schmitch
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 07, 2022

    did they fix the pwa phone notifications on linux or are they still bad?