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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"...

configuration

device management

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.

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

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.