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JLewis2
Copper Contributor
Jun 04, 2020

URL previews stopped working

Hi -  URL links used to show a preview when posted in Teams. It was very helpful but stopped working a few days ago and I can't figure out why (am on the free version).  Any ideas?

 

I have searched online and tried the help function in Teams but can't seem to find a setting or solution to go back to having previews. 

 

any help or advice would be great.

  • JLewis2 

    Thanks for reaching out to us with this issue. 

     

    I did a test with my own freemium tenet and I was able to post a link and a preview was included, so it is meant to be working.

    Example-

     
    Please update us if this issue is still being observed.

     

    Thanks,

    Jason Schumaker

    Teams Program Manager

  • JLewis2 

    Thanks for reaching out to us with this issue. 

     

    I did a test with my own freemium tenet and I was able to post a link and a preview was included, so it is meant to be working.

    Example-

     
    Please update us if this issue is still being observed.

     

    Thanks,

    Jason Schumaker

    Teams Program Manager

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      JLewis2
      Copper Contributor

      Jason_Schumacher; it's still happening with Twitter - seems to work for other urls / web sites but links to tweets no longer preview...however, they did when I was initially using the program so I'm not sure what happened. Is there any way to resolve the issue with previews of links to tweets? eg - this is the only image I get, not the one from the tweet:

       

       

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        Jason_Schumacher
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        JLewis2 

        Thank you for sharing more details on your experience. After looking into this further, I think I have a solution to unblock you, but also a bug for our product team to investigate.

         

        I'm noticing some URLs will only preview after the post is made. I tried this with twitter and it worked. Please try this and update us if it works for you.

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      EMucan
      Copper Contributor

      Jason_Schumacher 

      Hello Jason,

       

      do you have an explanation why the URL preview sometimes isn't working?
      I have a channel where we post links to TED Talks on a weekly basis. We either insert it directly at the end of our post or sometimes "hide" the link behind a text. Neither option is working right now. I also tried to insert the speech using a YouTube link. There's simply no preview in Teams although it worked a hundred times before. Any ideas what causes this problem?

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