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

Melv 185 Reputation points
2023-02-06T17:29:00.84+00:00

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...

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  1. Guido Bicocca 0 Reputation points
    2023-03-21T11:26:26.8466667+00:00

    I have the same problem!

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  2. teamsfix 0 Reputation points
    2023-04-18T11:31:30.0933333+00:00

    The solution is to install teams-for-linux and make a launsher where teams is replaced using msteams. More info can be found from google "Fix Open Microsoft Teams link on Linux script" Link for teams-for-linux https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux/releases/tag/v1.0.65

  3. teamsfix 0 Reputation points
    2023-04-21T14:40:05.9066667+00:00

    I made a better script which uses Chromium or Chrome web app function. You can find the script from google, when google has indexed its pages. Search using Chromium and Chrome TEAMS app launcher script

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  4. Gonu Gonu 0 Reputation points
    2023-06-08T19:43:56.0466667+00:00

    Thank you MM, it worked for me. 

    # 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/$1
Pattern type: Wildcard Regular Expression
Pattern Description:
Example result:msteams://teams.microsoft.com/*
3) Change App handling in settings (this is firefox, but also Chrome has such setting available) about:preferences -> Applications -> msteams 
4) Create a script (and chmod a+x it): 
	#!/bin/bash
	URL="${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.