We GeoIP block outbound traffic, but lately this causes Office apps to hit blocks when they attempt to hit a CDN endpoint in a blocked country (Teams/Co-Pilot/etc). FWIW, we do use Palo Alto's EDLs to manage allow-lists, but we suspect they didn't catch the latest updates. Aside from manually updating or reaching out to Palo Alto about outdated EDLs, is there a way to not hit countries we intend to block?

has anyone's teams 2.0 randomly uninstall/disappear on server 2025? the autoupdate key is set to never and today it was gone for everyone. very strange, combed through logs without anything standing out.

We're in the very early stages of it, but what are the rest of you doing about Group Policy Preferences (registry, folders, files, shortcuts) after moving to Intune, since it cannot do Preferences?

Hello, new problem with teams on Windows Server 2019. After Upgrade from Teams with a FSlogix PRofile the customer see the attached error when i try to add teams in the user context. command: Add-AppxPackage -MainPackage "MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe" -RegisterByFamilyName The app is installed in machine context.

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Anyone manage to successfully preview Teams Slimcore for Mac? My user account is in the "Show Teams preview features" "On for users in Current Channel (Preview)" policy, but I've never seen the preview actually work. This was the same way the Windows Slimcore was enabled a couple of years ago and I didn't have any issue with it activating.

TF is this shit?

late to the party regarding MS teams and slimcore optimization. I got the MS teams VDI plugin on latest CWA, 2507CU1 VDA's , Virtual channel allow list set for MS teams, Latest version of MS teams but when i check its still using HDX optimized / WEBRTC is there is a policy at the tenant level that needs to be set ?

Has anyone actually moved from Folder Redirection (in a user's home drive) to OneDrive seamlessly? I'm not seeing much out there, and the Migration Manager and SharePoint Migration tools don't look like they're actually suited for this.

Anyone running Teams 2.x in a seamless app in S19+? Based on what I'm reading, it looks like you're limited to basically running Teams PWA/Edge with no optimization. We have Teams installed in our desktop image, but you can't publish that shortcut as a seamless app.

any one using M365 apps with copilot in citrix ? does it work with shared computer licensing ?

Anyone been able to stop hyperlinks from opening in MS Edge in Classic outlook? Chrome is the default browser at OS level for web browser and default for file types like htm/html ect but clicking hyperlinks in outlook they open in ms edge. This setting is greyed out even tho i got no polices that control it

Hi Guys, We are moving off ADFS and started testing passthrough authentication. test users started having multiple logon prompts while launching office apps. our Citrix workers are 2022 server domain joined and PVS streamed. (and we also use Citrix FAS and FSLogix ODFC + UPM) I see a lot of people use Hybrid join these days. any gotchas with that - like cleaning hundreds of accounts from Azure AD every week? any additional steps like excluding or adding anything to Fslogix ODFC containers or UPM.

switched M365 Apps to monthly enterprise channel from semi annual channel because users needed to use co pilot in Excel/Word/Powerpoint (Only shows if they have Co pilot license). Unlicensed users dont get the Co pilot button in Excel/Word ect which is fine and expected but they do get it in Classic outlook on this update channel (We dont use new outlook and its not installed and i hide the Try new outlook toggle in classic outlook). The co pilot button in classic outlook has limited functionality due to most actions linking to New outlook so is useless and i need to get rid. I cant find any GPO to turn it off in classic outlook using latest ADMX's. I did manage to get rid of it by turning the below option off but again there isnt a GPO setting for this and the reg hacks i seen dont seem to work. Anyone managed to hack this ?

How is everyone handling Teams as a published app where by default it remains open on close? I wrote a PS script to edit the app_settings.json file to change _keep_app_running_on_close_ from True to False, and while it works, the second a user goes into Settings the change is reverted back to True.

Am I crazy, or should the Teams GPU process be low/non-existent on a Windows 365/Azure VM (in Citrix, so still ICA) where Teams is optimized (SlimCore)? Left is my W365 VM, right is my home endpoint.

Would you guys use anything less than 4 vcpu / 16GB mem for w365 machines? I feel like I tested 2 cpu and just felt sluggish doing anything.

anyone applied July's updates and seeing M365 apps on semi annual channel be updated to latest MEC version and switched to monthly enterprise channel as part of the patching ? learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/updates/unified-update-channels. I was under the impression it would only impact new installs (Cant choose SAC anymore)

Anyone else seeing M365 apps requesting frequent authentication? Not so much a problem, but an annoyance as many users have to do a full MFA authentication after only two hours of using Excel for example.

Anyone else using the 'DisableOneAuth' office registry key to help with SSO when launching office products for the first time (and after periods of no use)? Had this in place at the recommendation of Microsoft support, and it worked for a while, but doesn't seem to be working any more, not sure when it stopped working @Nick Panaccio

Has anyone configured Onedrive known folder redirection\sync for the 'desktop' folder on environments where Citrix Workspace places pub app/desktop shortcuts in that same folder? Reading some info that says you may experience duplicate icons in this scenario and that some folks solve it by blocking the .lnk extension from getting synced.

is there a W365 Cloud PC channel. I have the following question.....I’m trying to get a Bloomberg Keyboard working on a Windows 365 Cloud PC (Windows endpoint), but the fingerprint scanner and microphone are not passing through to the session. Keystrokes work fine. Current Setup & Policies Applied: • Cloud PC Intune Policy: Do not allow supported Plug and Play device redirection set to Disabled. • Endpoint GPO: Allow RDP redirection of other supported RemoteFX USB devices from this computer set to Enabled. Has anyone successfully configured the Bloomberg biometric module and mic for W365 Cloud PCs? Are there specific Intune RDP custom properties, USB Vendor IDs (VID/PID), or endpoint client settings we need to explicitly allow?

Hello, has anyone experienced a Teams notification on Windows Server 2019 indicating that the platform is no longer supported and recommending an upgrade to Windows Server 2025? Is it possible to disable or suppress this notification?

Updated image with latest ms teams version and now get this annoying pop up anyway can surpress it or opt out ?

Don't think you can but is there any way it is possible to suppress the "Teams optimization for your virtual desktop will soon be unsupported" message? We are sorting the stuff for Slimcore but it'll take a few weeks and users are logging calls every time they see this....

Is anyone excluded the following directory from their profile management solution with no ill effects? I found a user with nearly 20 GB folder full of thousands of files. I don't believe this directory is on Microsoft's safe to exclude list.

AppData\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\EBWebView\WV2Profile_tfw\blob_storage

Has anyone else seen odd behavior with New Teams SlimCore optimization where it’s totally reliable on a pooled random W11 desktops DH but inconsistent (more common failure to optimizt than not) on dedicated 1:1 persistent W11 desktop? The desktop where we see SlimCore fail is persistent, so it’s not like UEM (ProU) is landing a reg setting too late (registry is read from persistent disk). Via Monitor, I see Teams virtual channels open but “plugin not detected” some days on that persistent desktop, yet the same user on the same endpoint gets a 100% success SlimCore‑optimized on a pooled random desktop, and other users on the same persistent pool are fine. Annnnd now the crazy part, if we don't auto-start Teams on the peristent desktop, and had the user launch Teams manually after logon, SlimCore started working consistently. Curious if anyone has run into a similar Teams/SlimCore timing or race condition tied to auto‑start on persistent single‑session desktops, and if you found any clean way to address it beyond just turning off auto‑start. (2603 VDAs/latest CR CWA and CWA/GACS managed Teams plugin)

I use the ODT software to update M365 Apps on PVS images during monthly vdisk updates. I have always used setup.exe /download configuration.xml and setup.exe /configure configuration.xml to install latest MEC build nothing has changed in the xml same options as always. This month for some unknown reason when the image is sealed it is sealed with version 2608 confirmed via backstage view > About but then for some unknown reason its somehow downgrading to 2607 when the image in booted in standard mode. I set the reg key to disable office updates as part of sealing

Am I the only one who can't seem to master Teams? I'm having (yet more) issues with Teams lately. We had it working OK on a Server 2022 image for a while but after September patches it seemed to break users randomly Mainly: Missing icons, not autostarting at login. GPOs to our knowledge are in place (and were working previously). Two of us have worked on this for a while now and we simply can't get Teams to auto-start now at login, or show an icon in the Start Menu. We've reinstalled, checked GPOs, even tried logging in locally as another admin user after install (local profile, no fslogix) - nada. The app doesn't seem to provision anymore. Anyone having the same issues?

Seeing this more and more on 2507 CU2 on Server 2025, with no real resolution in sight.