Linux client

My team has some users on Linux, and one benefit Slack has is a Linux client. Without a Linux client on Microsoft Teams, some orgs may have to turn away in favor of Slack so everyone can participate without keeping a browser open all the time.

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Angela Sze shared this idea · Nov 1, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Feb 13, 2020

Thank you for your feedback that helped us launch the Microsoft Teams Linux client. The client is now available for everyone to use. Please find instructions for installing and more details here: https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/get-clients#linux. Enjoy!

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great news! ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Dec 10, 2019

We’re pleased to announce the Teams client for Linux is now available for preview. Please see details at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Microsoft-Teams-is-now-available-on-Linux/ba-p/1056267.

Please check out the Q&A forum here – https://docs.microsoft.com/answers/topics/teams.html.

Enjoy!

great news! ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Nov 4, 2019

We’re pleased to confirm the Teams client for Linux will be available in preview by the end of this calendar year, enabling people who use Linux client at work or in educational institutions to collaborate with others on Teams. Users are able to install native Linux packages in .deb and .rpm formats.

Please note the supported Linux distributions are: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS*, 18.04 LTS, Fedora 30 Workstation, RHEL 8 Workstation, CentOS 8. We are working to unblock CentOS 7, and it will be available soon.

Thanks!

working on it ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Sep 6, 2019

We know many of you are waiting for a Teams client for Linux, and we’re pleased to confirm we’re actively working on it. Stay tuned for more information.

~Alex

on the backlog ·

AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Jul 3, 2019

We know so many of our customers use Linux and we want Teams to be available for everyone. Stay tuned for more information soon.

~Alex

on the backlog ·

Suphatra responded · Oct 18, 2018

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback – we hear you loud and clear. After talking this over with the Engineering team, I confirmed this will remain on the backlog and we are actively considering how to accelerate.

Tweet me if you have any questions! @skprufo

Suphatra

declined ·

Suphatra responded · Oct 17, 2018

Hey guys, it has been two years since you asked for this and two years that I have been asking engineering for this and about this. At this point, there is no dedicated resource to creating a Linux client and I don’t want to string any of you along about it anymore. I’m marking this as declined so we can focus on your other requests.

If you are particularly mad about this decline, then email me. I am always happy to hear what you think and what you want for Teams. I appreciate the engagement even if it is disappointment or anger. My email is sparavi@microsoft.com. Ping me any time, about anything. :-)

Sincerely,
Suphatra

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Jul 24, 2018

This item is still on the backlog. I’m waiting for additional feedback from the feature team which I hope to have new information soon.

-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Apr 12, 2018

No new updates at this time.

I will continue to voice your feedback to the team and provide updates as possible.
-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Feb 27, 2018

No new updates at this time. This item is still on the backlog.

Though for those that don’t know, you can use Google Chrome to run the web version of Teams on Linux. It is a workaround to a degree…

I will continue to voice your feedback to the team and provide updates as possible.

-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Jan 30, 2018

This item is still queued in the backlog. No really new info to share at this time.

It isn’t forgotten but as Suphatra stated some priorities have shifted so this item is not actively being worked upon.

We will continue to follow up on this and work to get some traction for this item.

Thank you for your patience.
-Warren

on the backlog ·

Suphatra responded · Aug 28, 2017

I know how much you all want this, and I’ve gotten a couple emails asking for an update.

As you likely already know, we’re heads down trying to get Guest Access out the door, so we are not actively working on a Linux client.

Also, we’ll be focusing on knocking out a significant number of user requests in the coming months, but the scope of a Linux client is too big for that time frame. I plan to lobby for this one once we get these other items, and Guest Access out the door.

I really appreciate your patience, and please rest assured I haven’t forgotten about this ask!

Thanks and hope you are all well.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

under review ·

Suphatra responded · Mar 23, 2017

Hi folks — we had to pull this back into review. I’ll get you more details once I have them.

Please feel welcome to continue to provide your feedback and votes — we’re listening!

Suphatra
Microsoft Teams

working on it ·

Suphatra responded · Mar 8, 2017

Happy Wednesday! I’m happy to share that we’re working on this. If you’re interested in providing more feedback on this item, you can sign up for user testing here: https://1drv.ms/xs/s!AryUNzh1ogZzif8pDcOcx2pW45I87w

Thanks,
Suphatra

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Anonymous commented · February 11, 2020 6:42 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Please add me to the testing group.

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Noah commented · February 6, 2020 11:40 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Please add me to the testing group. I am trying to convince my team to make the full switch over to O365 Teams and having a working linux based client would be amazing.

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Mike commented · January 29, 2020 8:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I would like to be on the testing group!

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Austin Whitesell commented · January 28, 2020 7:50 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Please add me to the testing group, really excited to try this out. Thanks!

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Philip Schlesinger commented · January 27, 2020 3:13 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Does anybody else have the problem where Teams within WSL and X11 is full-screen -- and the window won't resize?

I've tried X11 using MobaXterm and VcXsrv -- running 'teams' within the WSL terminal-- and in both cases it's a full-screen window. I've also tried running teams within a xfce desktop and there again, it's full screen. Help?

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Stepan commented · January 27, 2020 2:14 AM · Flag as inappropriate

piece of Electron ****

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B commented · January 24, 2020 7:13 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any hope of getting screen sharing working? I hear it supposedly works if using X11, but without Wayland support many newer distributions don't work. On my openSuSE system teams (1.3) reboots if I try to screen share. It would be much more useful if this worked.

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W. Matthew Schlueter commented · January 23, 2020 10:41 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you. Massive step in the right direction.

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Jake commented · January 19, 2020 9:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

How about the possibility of getting logs from Teams Linux client?

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ng-lb commented · January 16, 2020 3:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It's not much better than Teams in the browser, notifications are minimally viable, and now I can't block all the invasive tracking practices.

I'm going back to the browser

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Jess commented · January 2, 2020 6:32 PM · Flag as inappropriate

We are OEM manufacturer and many customers request us to pre-install Microsoft Teams on our Linux OS devices. Should we need to sign the agreement before we pre-load Microsoft-Team on our devices?

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Jan van Veldhuizen commented · December 30, 2019 1:57 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Auto-start does not work for me on Ubuntu 19.10

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Maxim Sizonenko commented · December 20, 2019 12:49 AM · Flag as inappropriate

it's amazing. Thanks for a great job!

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Adam commented · December 19, 2019 6:30 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Working great for me but please support native notifications!
(btw i use arch)

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[Deleted User] commented · December 19, 2019 1:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you for working Teams on Linux. It is a huge plus for you Microsoft!

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Andrew Fullagar commented · December 18, 2019 2:42 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Teams client works great. Please fix content/desktop sharing. When sharing the teams client reboots.

Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Teams version - Preview Version 1.2.00.32451 (64-bit).
Teams version - Insiders Version 1.2.00.32955 (64 bit).

Plantronics BT600 + Focus UC and Voyager 5200 headsets work great.

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S. Paschall commented · December 17, 2019 9:53 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Thanks, folks; this is huge for our team. The native notifications thing is a biggie, though.

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amasover commented · December 17, 2019 8:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

It would be very nice to support native OS notifications on Linux. I'll copy/paste my comment from the Q & A site https://docs.microsoft.com/answers/questions/3606/please-support-native-notifications.html

> I realize there is a benefit to Teams' custom notifications implementation. You can click the message in the notification window to go directly to the conversation. I believe the freedesktop notification spec is for passive notifications only, meaning no way to handle input like that.

> I think support for native notifications would still be valuable, since then you can make Teams notifications work like the rest of your system notifications (same location on screen, same size, same styling), rather than needing to set position on specifically the Teams floating notification window. An option to switch between Teams style and native notifications would be fantastic.

Edit: looks like someone already added a standalone Uservoice issue:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/39279040-introduce-freedesktop-dbus-notifications-for-linux

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Cb commented · December 17, 2019 7:50 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Screen share not working Fedora 30/i3

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Optout commented · December 16, 2019 10:20 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Sharing the screen on Ubuntu 18.04 is not working. Both sharing my screen and also being the viewer of a shared screen did not work.

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