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Cant pop out meetings from teams chat
Hi everyone,
I am having this exact same issue. The pop-out option WAS working on both of my devices at one point about a month ago, but then one of the devices (the one I normally use for video conferencing) stopped letting me do it. It is greyed-out, and if I hover over it I get the message "This isn't available on your device." I have tried everything suggested here (and then some) all to no avail.
Interestingly, on my other device I still have this option, but that is not the device I use for video conferencing because of how my workspace is setup. The working device's Teams also shows a slightly OLDER version number (1.5.00.28361) compared to the device where it isn't working (1.5.00.28567)
Another possibility I considered is that the device where it does work is running Windows Enterprise and is managed by the organization, while the device where it doesn't is running Windows Home and is a personal device. (NOTE: Both Teams instances are signed into the same AD account, although the personal device's Windows login is a local account). I'm confused as to why this should matter though. If anything I'd think the organization-managed device would have more restrictions for experimental/public-preview features. Is it possible this feature is only available on systems running Enterprise with Office 365 subscription, etc???
UPDATE!
I figured out a work-around. I have to use an older version of Teams, specifically version 1.5.00.8070 from April 2022. Older versions are available on uptodown.com:
https://microsoft-teams.en.uptodown.com/windows/download/4594768
I tried several newer versions as well, but that was the most recent version in which the pop-out screen-shared content works for me.
The main trick now will be to prevent Teams from auto-updating because apparently there is no in-built way to disable auto-updates. Based on my readings of how the updates are fetched, it might be possible to do this with a static DNS host entry for statics.teams.microsoft.com in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file, which points to a dummy address that will not respond (e.g. 127.0.0.1). Possibly also restricting write and/or execute permissions to the directory where updates are downloaded to...
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-community-blog/overview-of-teams-desktop-client-auto-update-process/ba-p/2922657
Another update, re: preventing auto-updates:
It seems that the static DNS host entry for statics.teams.microsoft.com didn't prevent auto-update. There must be a secondary url it is using, or maybe the ip address (or an outside DNS server) is hardcoded... dunno.
However, if I restricted permissions to the folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\packages , to only read and list folder contents for all profiles, it prevented updates from being installed. (Note that if you only allow 'list folder contents' Teams wouldn't start. You have to allow 'read')
