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TimLB
Iron Contributor
Dec 19, 2023

December 2023 Windows update defaulting to New Teams

I was curious if anyone else was seeing the behavior that Teams is defaulting to New Teams after updating to the release for Windows 11, December 2023? Our global Teams policy is set to "Not enabled"...
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Reza_Ameri
Silver Contributor
Dec 19, 2023
So you are looking for a policy like when you set not enable it, then it opens the old Microsoft Teams instead of open the new one and ask to revert back?
I believe this is a behavior by design but with not a positive user experience and I advise you to file a report in the Feedback Hub app.
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TimLB
Iron Contributor
Dec 21, 2023
Nope, we have the policy in Teams Admin to not enable new Teams - regardless of that policy after an update occurred on our Windows 11 devices and the first time opening Teams it attempted to open New Teams.
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    Patrick_Mueller
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 05, 2024

    Hi Timothy, please check this article as well https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/teams-install. We also have unwanted installations of Teams New Client. Since December MS started enrolment for Teams New Client inside of M365 Apps Package - as well for GIVEN installations. The weird thing in your case ist the Autostart - we openend a ticket to MS and got the confirmation that the combination with Global Teams Update Rule stating NO new Teams will not impcact user with Classic Teams. In that documentations there is only one case with autostart, if there is any kind of (even default) deployment with Office Deployment Tools. I would check this as well. Greetings from Germany , dmTech Corp

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      TimLB
      Iron Contributor
      Jan 05, 2024

      We had some reports that our Mac OS devices/users saw this behavior as well over my time out of the office. Once they switch back to Teams classic everything is OK. We're in a monitoring mode until the next time Teams updates.

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    Reza_Ameri
    Silver Contributor
    Dec 21, 2023
    From what you explained, I believe this is a bug.
    I advise you to report this issue to the Microsoft Teams:
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/give-feedback-in-microsoft-teams-c0fb6297-22af-4db5-b19b-69e0a6720927
    You may file a bug report using the Feedback Hub app in Windows.

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