I run Microsoft Teams on MacOS and noticed the following, to much frustration: I have a NAS on my home office network, which is not always connected. When Teams starts up, and the NAS is not connected (also when I'm travelling) it tries (without notification) to connect to this NAS, resulting in a startup time of up to 5 minutes, and 3-6 messages popping up that it cannot connect to the NAS.It is not only frustrating, but also unnecessary - why would Teams need anything from a network storage location during startup? Anyone who recognises this and knows how to get rid of it? I run on MacOS, so no registry hack solutions please 😉

Do you have some print screens?

adam deltinger not right now, but all it says is Unable to connect to delphinosvr, followed by an OK button. Screenshots won’t show more than that, and in fairness I think it’s a clear design/implementation flaw. Teams had no business on that network location, certainly not during startup and login.

It shouldn’t afaik! Have you somehow installed the Teams profile on the NAS?You can check the logs and see what they say or post them:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/log-filesAdam

adam deltinger thanks for that tip. Here's what I did tonight: 1. logout of Teams2. shutdown NAS3. restart Teams Before getting to the login stage the attached window had already popped up 5 times. The list with accounts to select from (I have 3 Teams accounts) showed up immediately after the 5th one. 4. Login That was flawless as always. 6. Collect log files as you suggested I found no reference to my NAS in any of the log files 7. Did a grep for the NAS on all files in ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams No reference foud at all I'm completely puzzled - the startup time is 3-4 minutes due to this, whenever I am not on my home-network. Angelo

DelphinoCons Have the same issue at startup, as well as at shutdown. In fact, Teams locks up and becomes non-responsive trying shutdown if the network drive is not available. Creepy behavior.

Teams tries to connect to network drives during start up - and ends up starting really slow

Randok
Copper Contributor
Aug 24, 2022
I too have exactly the same problem!
Gmccray
Copper Contributor
Mar 10, 2022
I have exactly the same problem. Is there a solution?
sferrari63
Copper Contributor
Oct 01, 2021
Same problem, and same concern. What is it looking for on that drive?
- ralftrappp
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 01, 2021
  That is what fixed it for me:
  
  - Uninstall Teams (On Mac I used AppCleaner for this to make sure it's really gone)
  - Disable all drives on startup (don't connect any drive on startup)
  - Install Teams again
  - Enable "connect drives at startup" again
DS_Resson
Copper Contributor
Jul 08, 2021
I've been having the same issue for several months now. Makes me very concerned about privacy issues.
- ralftrappp
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 20, 2021
  Same here. And have several colleagues cursing teams because of this behavior. Looks like the Microsoft guys either have always perfect network connection to their network drives, don't use home office at all or don't have any network drives in use. Otherwise they would have fixed that in a second.
msarangdhar
Copper Contributor
Jun 23, 2021
DelphinoCons

Have the same issue at startup, as well as at shutdown. In fact, Teams locks up and becomes non-responsive trying shutdown if the network drive is not available. Creepy behavior.
adam deltinger
MVP
Jun 15, 2021
Do you have some print screens?
- DelphinoCons
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 15, 2021
  adam deltinger not right now, but all it says is Unable to connect to delphinosvr, followed by an OK button. Screenshots won’t show more than that, and in fairness I think it’s a clear design/implementation flaw. Teams had no business on that network location, certainly not during startup and login.
  - adam deltinger
    MVP
    Jun 16, 2021
    It shouldn’t afaik! Have you somehow installed the Teams profile on the NAS?
    You can check the logs and see what they say or post them:
    
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/log-files
    
    Adam

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