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Jon-Loane
Brass Contributor
Feb 12, 2020
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Teams Join Online button opens browser in stead of desktop application

Whenever a user clicks a "Join Online" button in their Outlook reminder or when a link to a teams channel is clicked in SharePoint, it opens the browser first and not the user's already running insta...
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LinusCansby's avatar
LinusCansby
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Feb 12, 2020

Hi,

 

There is a uservoice about this:

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/39089752-join-a-meeting-without-going-through-the-browser 

 

I have two computers here now and one of them it opens directly in Teams desktop app, but on the other one it opens the browser first. Both computers are running the same version of Windows, Teams and Edge Chronium browser. Strange.

 

This topic is already been discussed in this thread with some suggestions:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/is-there-a-way-to-launch-ms-teams-meeting-always-in-desktop-app/m-p/660873#M32439

  • LWitherspoon's avatar
    LWitherspoon
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 26, 2022

    LinusCansby the link content unfortunately seems to be archived. If you remember or have any of the content saved could you please add it to this string?

  • mbiggs1234's avatar
    mbiggs1234
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 27, 2020

    LinusCansby - Hi Linus I was having the same issue, but I was opening up my Outlook invite, and clicking on the meeting link there, which was opening up the web browser, etc. and a lot of extra work. I found that if I'm on the Calendar in Outlook, right-click on my invite and select JOIN TEAMS MEETING that it opens up the meeting directly and then I can click JOIN.  That was driving me nuts!

  • Jon-Loane's avatar
    Jon-Loane
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 12, 2020

    LinusCansby 

    Hello Linus,

     

    Thanks for the response and assistance here. Are your two computers logged in with the same user account? If not, are both users in "Teams Only" mode policy? 

     

    Thanks,

     

    Jon

    • LinusCansby's avatar
      LinusCansby
      MVP
      Feb 13, 2020

      Jon-Loane Yes, same account and it is TeamsOnly. I will check some more on this later to see if I can find any difference. 

      • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
        ChrisWebbTech
        MVP
        Feb 13, 2020
        Check your outlook version numbers. I would think the difference would be there.

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