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fettouhi1280
Feb 24, 2025Copper Contributor
Microsoft Teams remoteapp disable autostart
Hi
So I have been trying almost everything to disbale teams autostarting for users after they launch it the first time in a remoteapp hostpool with teams, word, excel etc.
Teams is slimcore optimzied and works but getting it to not launch if a user only wants to open up word is really frustrating to configure. All registry settings I have tired don't work and going into the Teams admin center is disabling it fully would be a global setting on all devices for the users which we don't want.
Anyone got this working ?
Teams is installed on the golden image machine wide so its not a msix app attached setup.
- fettouhi1280Copper Contributor
This looks like its for teams classic.
How about this:
Method 1: Group Policy
Open Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)Navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Teams
Locate the policy named Prevent Microsoft Teams from starting automatically after installation
Set the policy to Enabled
Method 2: Registry Settings
Open Registry Editor (regedit)Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Teams
Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named PreventTeamsFromStartingAutomatically
Set the value to 1
Method 3: Modify the Teams Configuration File
Navigate to the Teams installation directoryLocate the Teams.exe.config file
Modify the configuration to disable autostart
Method 4: Disable Autostart via Task Manager
Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc)Go to the Startup tab
Locate Microsoft Teams and disable it
Method 5: PowerShell Script
You can use a PowerShell script to disable Teams autostart for all users:
$teamsPath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe" $teamsArgs = "--processStart \"Teams.exe\" --process-start-args \"--no-auto-start\"" Start-Process -FilePath $teamsPath -ArgumentList $teamsArgs