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Randy Nieraeth
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Sep 07, 2022

Open Files In Desktop App By Default now license based and not functioning within Business Prem

In about a week ago we started to receive notifications of user who cannot open Office files directly in their Desktop App from within Microsoft Teams.   All of these users are licensed with Busine...
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technonath
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Sep 06, 2023

I dont know if there has been a change of policy, but the release notes for the new teams says

"Choose where files open
Teams will now honor the settings you’ve set for how to open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files."

taken from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-new-in-the-new-microsoft-teams-03f99a8a-0ba9-477c-af88-389d294425c3

 

however if I try to set the default it says "switch to class Teams and open the link? This link is not supported in the new teams. Select continue to switch to classic teams and open the link.

 

Typical Microsoft !

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technonath
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Sep 11, 2023
Update: As far as i can see there has been no policy change - so I do not understand what the above announcement is actually referring to.
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    dbrock
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 11, 2023

    technonath It is being rolled out across tenants. I have about 20 tenants that are currently impacted and dozens more that are not yet. One received the rollout 2 weeks ago, so eventually, it will be on all tenants.

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      technonath
      Iron Contributor
      Sep 14, 2023
      dbrock, Hmmm, Microsoft have removed that paragraph completely from that article now, are you sure that change is coming ???
      • Chus72's avatar
        Chus72
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 06, 2023

        Try to set the default office language to your system defaults.

        technonath 

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