Microsoft Teams download banner / popup needs to be removed
When a user in the Office 365 environment wants to use the web version http://teams.microsoft.com, a popup message is visible at the upper area with a prompt to install the client version:
“Want an even faster, more collaborative experience? Download the desktop app.” By several given security compliance requirements in big IT environments, the users shouldn’t be able to install any additional software at their PCs. This popup is confusing the web-only Teams user and also it makes the software deployment team nervous.
Carsten Eberhard
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A L
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Please remove this download notification -- we do NOT want to use the desktop app, and it's confusing for everyone. Thanks.
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e
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Microsoft- please realize that some offices are not allowed to download the desktop app. Getting this prompt every single time we click on a shared Teams doc has made many of our staff "hate Teams" and made it almost impossible to convince them to stick with this tool.
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Anonymous
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Be nice if MS listened for once, if one signs into the web app over the desktop app its most likely becase they want to use the WEB APP
Not everyone needs their hand holding :/
Trying to implement a teams hot desk using kiosk mode this is a pain i could do without
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Anonymous
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I will add that I also consider this banner annoying, especially since I have already downloaded the desktop app, and use it occasionally. I would very much like to disable this notification entirely.
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Anonymous
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Adding to the chorus of complaints about this. We run a non-persistent Citrix environment that the Teams full client is not a good fit for and desire to just be able to launch directly into the web client without the big shiny 'download this' button.
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Anonymous
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Hi Microsoft! It is highly required these days!
I have parents sharing the same computer with several kids and since you *still* do not support (there is a different uservoice - I know...) multiple logins on the download app, there is no way they can use the computer.
Now - they are primary school kids, not IT exports - when they see this message it is soo confusing for them!
So it is understood you want as many as possible downloads, I completely understand that!
BUT - either they could use multiple accounts on the download version or we can provide them a link to skip this screen.....Thanks!!!!
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Patrik Molinder
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Microsoft is not known for good business practices.This is surly by design, in order to force us to the client in Windows.
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Tiffany Koenig
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We are implementing 365 to all users, and Teams is a blocked feature due to our security. This is very troublesome to management and confusing to end user. Please remove this feature.
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Hans Dickel
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Only prompt once the user logs in and an admin setting indicates the user can be notified of such a client is available.
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Anonymous
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This was a massive headache for my team when we deployed Teams Firmwide in response to going on Covid Lockdown.
Everytime someone would try to join a meeting they would see this stupid download prompt and think they had to install it. Without fail every single user was doing this.
Such a pain in the a$$
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David Nicholas
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More than 2 years later this nonsense is still happening. Come on Microsoft, do you let the receptionists in Redmond install whatever they want?
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Anonymous
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We use a conditional access rule to force VDI users to use teams in the browser, and this option allows and suggests that users install the application contrary to company policy.
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Anonymous
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This is the most irritating thing on our Citrix virtual desktops. Every day our users must click the link "Use the web app instead".
Please fix this ASAP.
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Anonymous
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This has been an absolute pain for my organisation and it’s actually MS shooting itself in the foot as every MS teams call goes like this...
.... send invitation
... meeting arrives.
... call from participants saying download prompt and admin rights don’t allow download
... I say press use web app version
... I can’t see this option, zoom? -
Regina
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Please make a policy that would allow this to be suppressed.
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Anonymous
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Please make this a priority. Even a policy to hide it would work.
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Anonymous
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we can block it installed teams on local machines via gpo but user can download the Microsoft Teams and they can run it directly in citrix Desktop, how can we block this in the citrix session.
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Anonymous
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None of our end users can install software and this is just annoying to the ones that already have Teams installed.
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fred
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Removing the download prompt is required to consider this enterprise friendly.
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Anonymous
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Using Teams in a BYOD scenario is often limited to web access only and this a troublesome prompt that can confuse and potentially lead to a user having access via an unapproved client app. It shouldn't be that hard to fix!
