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How to Prevent Teams from Auto-Launch
Hi guys, I plan to deploy Teams in my company, and there's a headache. I don't want Teams auto launches when system starts, and when I install it, I use this script: msiexec /i "%temp%\Teams_w...
- Hi chenrylee
AFAIK, not currently possible. Whilst you can script it or have a user uncheck it in the settings it does not occur by default
There are multiple uservoices of disabling the start up option, such as this
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33728680-disable-startup-option
There is one here to turn off autostart for the entire tenant which may be closer to what you need.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33922291-disbale-autostart-in-teams-app-for-the-entire-tena
If these don't cover exactly what you need I would raise this as a new uservoice. To note however, it could be some time to get picked up and really, I think the general desire from organisations to use Teams is more to have autostart on by default rather than off
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
To get around this I am applying the GPO now, so the September or October release of Office does not perform the auto-start. I am also creating a scheduled task to be deployed to all users before this rolls that will delete the Teams shortcut from their desktop. If a user clicks on this shortcut they have now passed the first logon for Teams and the auto-start becomes active (even after implementing the GPO). We are not licensing everyone in the company for this right now, so you can imagine the tickets it will generate for a failed launch each and every logon.
That GPO should run each time the user logs in and it should delete the registry key again if the user launches the Teams Application.
- That was my concern, not understanding what defined 'launching'. So I tested this and the GPO does stop the auto-launch. However, if a non-licensed Teams user clicks that desktop icon the GPO becomes null and void, and Teams (even in an unlicensed state) will try to start on every consecutive logon. For me that would generate a huge amount of tickets from users that have not been introduced to Teams.
- The one that comes with the ADMX from MS HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\teams preventfirstlaunchaterinstall (1)