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New Teams - Set most recent app view as default
I haven't been able to find a solution for this and it really bothers me. Microsoft is trying to force people to use Teams as a chat app. I'm tired of big tech trying to force behavior. They can easily fix this. They just won't do it because it benefits them to leave it like it is. I'm sure they use the chat data for marketing, to seed A.I. or something.
When you say "it because it benefits them to leave it like it is" - I don't even understand the benefit from Microsoft's perspective. What are they gaining from annoying the users like this? It makes no sense to me.
First off, the "Chat" module of this software kind of blows. It's not great. It's probably the weakest feature of the whole suite, in my opinion. Also... the program is called Microsoft TEAMS... not Microsoft CHAT. It's really bizarre to me that there seems to be this direction of development to deprioritize and apparently maybe eliminate the "Teams" feature of Microsoft Teams? Which is what everybody loves and what made it popular in the first place? Again, I'm baffled. If anybody can explain Microsoft's thought process on this (steelman it for me, sincerely) I would love to hear it.
I'll just add one more tiny voice to the chorus of the reasonable: Please allow the "starting app" of Microsoft Teams to default to "Last Used" and/or make this a configurable option in the Settings on a per user (ideal) or admin (minimum viable) level. PLEASE! Thank you. 😊
I can only speculate, but my assumption is that they use the chat data for marketing purposes, to seed A.I., or something similar. But Teams used to have this feature and then they deliberately removed it. Now they say it's "not feasible" to add it, which makes no sense. As a programmer I know how easy it is to save and set a preference like this for users.
On a side note I have found a workaround. I found that there are some command line options for Teams, and I was able to create a desktop shortcut with the following command line arguments which opens Teams to the Calendar tab:
msteams:/l/calendar
I hope this helps. Hopefully they won't cripple this functionality too.
Amazing! Could you share the entire command and also give a reference to the documentation where you found the allowable arguments?
would it be - "[path to msteams.exe] msteams:/l/teams" for example to make it open to the "Teams" app ?
I'm having trouble finding the path. What is the path to teams.exe?
And what are all the allowed arguments - in particular - to open to the "Teams" app and/or a specific channel?
Thanks!!! 🙏😊Note - I did find this site just now. Maybe this will help you:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-commands-in-microsoft-teams-88f61508-284d-417f-a53d-9e082164050b