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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32 comments
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Scott Filman
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Any update to this?. Any comments from Microsoft?? This feature would be very useful.
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Michael Curran
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Please, please, please provide us an option to bypass this prompt. We've made a conscious decision not to deploy the client.
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Tom
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Dear lord...please allow for the removal of this confusing re-direction. Enterprise environments don't need to confuse their customers more than MS already has. Thanks.
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Mark Johnson
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The Microsoft Teams pop up is the most irritating and useless feature in the history of the PC. I really do not want to have to click on that to make it disappear every time I open my lap top.
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Mark
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Would like to bypass the page and go straight to the web app. Would be used in a VDI application portal.
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Erin Day
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Desperately needed, especially when we have to troubleshoot problematic fat clients with modern auth. Also, the web interface is so good and doesnt regular patching
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John
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Even a parameter in the URL would be great. Ex. http://teams.microsoft.com/#nobanner or something.
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Greg Hyzak
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Ditto all comments... Ugh!
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Sylvester
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This has to be the most annoying thing to work with. Every link that I open has the option to download the windows app or use the web app instead. Can you please make this go away. forever!
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Anonymous
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Hi, in a VDI environment when a URL is published to Citrx then that it impacts the user experience to click an additional screen especially when the SSO has already authenticated the user. Please can this be removed and/or amended that an admin can script it so it can be accepted or remembered. This will be a barrier to user acceptance for Teams on Citrix for us.
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Dan O'Reilly
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Please allow us to disable this soon
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Anonymous
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Please allow us to disable this!
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Anonymous
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pls remove it
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Daniel Neto
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This is very annoying and play against the adoption of the product in our company.
Everybody knows, the application is impracticable on VDI Environment or Large Deployments, so our solution is use the Web Application, but with banner, everyone just close the screen.
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Anonymous
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As others have stated, need this for browser-only citrix deployment.
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Ron Butler
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My workshop is trialing Microsoft Teams. I'm frustrated that I have to click past this screen every day. "Remember My Choice" buttons are ubiquitous. The fact that a company like Microsoft hasn't put one here makes it feel like they are being deliberately pushy about their Windows app. And it might not even have been a deliberate choice, but I still feel slightly angry every time. I told you 'no' yesterday, web page! :D
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Anonymous
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be good to see the back of that unnecessary pop-up....definitely should be an admin-configurable option
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Stanley Harp
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Requesting this feature as well. Would be extremely helpful to make for an easy to use use experience.
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Sylvester
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For VDI environments, this is a must. The Desktop App is too heavy and the Web App keeps on prompting for the Desktop App. We need to be able to set /configure this for users.
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Dix
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Another vote - as the Web app is currently the best option for non-persistent VDIs, making our users click skip every time will further degrade the user experience as compared to the desktop app.
A simple solution would be to have a URL that just takes you straight to the login for Teams