Open Microsoft Teams link on Linux doesn't work AGAIN in 2023

Question

This problem is back AGAIN in 2023 in Teams version 1.5.00.23861 on Linux (Ubuntu).

Invitation links won't open anymore on my desktop app... the "Join On The Teams App" button on the website does NOT work and then quickly redirects to the web-interface to join the meeting....

I have tried to downgrade to an older version of Microsoft Teams... but Microsoft deleted all 1.4.00.* and 1.3.00.* versions from their repository. So there is no way to downgrade right now to resolve this problem.

Unbelievable that this is not caught by any tests...

Answer 1

I'm seeing the same behaviour. A workaround that worked for me was to copy the invitation link and paste into a message to myself in the chat window. Clicking the link from within the teams app correctly opened the call in the app.

Answer 2

# How to get Teams-for-Linux to join for the meeting invitations

1) Install Redirector extension for your browser. (e.g. 
2) Setup Redirector: 
  Description:MS teams
Example URL:https://teams.microsoft.com/*
Include pattern:https://teams.microsoft.com/(.*)
Redirect to:msteams://teams.microsoft.com/$1
Pattern type: Wildcard Regular Expression
Pattern Description:
Example result:msteams://teams.microsoft.com/*
3) Change App handling in settings (this is firefox, but also Chrome has such setting available) about:preferences -> Applications -> msteams: Always Ask
4) Create a script (and chmod a+x it): 
	#!/bin/bash
	URL="${1/msteams/https}"
	teams-for-linux --url $URL

5) Then when you open a link to meeting, it open it on browser, and  now should ask the app what is used for it - open the link with that script. 

Answer 3

Huge case of abismal user experience, what a load ... . Not only could I not access an important meeting invite AT ALL because of an error that simply stated 'sorry for the issue' or something along those lines. But the info I had in the logs where about a domain that didn't exist, but I had no way to even try a new login as I was stuck in a auto connect, error connect, close ... loop. Then had to ... uninstall, reinstall just to use a new adresse, just to get stuck agains being sent to the browser instead of the app. More blessed hacking later, I finally get a message saying that this version was only for accounts in a organisation, not personal. Got another version (where I could tell it to use personal) that still redirected me to the browser to enable, only to the tell me it was only for organisation AGAIN. Thanks for loosing my time, my mind, AND HAVING TO RESCHEDULE with my son's school.

There is no workaround stupidity.

Answer 4

Hey there!

I've found a way (for Ubuntu 20.04). No extension needed. You need to replace the https with msteams, not teams.

• Copy the meeting link (warning: copying with righ-click in Google Calendar's event doesn't work, because Google changes the copied url with its own url data. You need to copy the URL which starts with https://teams.microsoft.com/.....)
• Paste the url anywhere and replace https with msteams
• Call teams from terminal, passing the msteams link of the meeting as argument.

I saw some people saying it does not work by replacing https with teams, but it must be msteams, like the example below:

teams msteams://teams.microsoft.com/.....

Answer 5

I can report the same problem following upgrade to 1.5.00.23861 (64-bit) in the last few days, following which Teams links don't open in the app, they open in the browser.