Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop - How to disable startup

Question

hi
Following these docs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment#use-group-policy-recommended + https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/scripts/powershell-script-teams-reset-autostart + http://woshub.com/disable-teams-autostart/ was able to achieve some results but not full.

I am able to disable Teams startup but if a user launches it then it will startup next login.

Is there a more permanent way to disable Teams from starting up?

I am using the Market Place images to build my AVD machines so Teams comes installed already.

Thanks, M

Answer 1

I'm assuming you don't want to simply uninstall MsTeams?

I believe MsTeams by default is now installed in machine-wide mode for the multi-session images instead of per user profile and I think the GPO option you are using is for the per-user installation.

I think you would need to install MsTeams in the machine-wide mode but use the switch option as below to prevent it from auto-starting.

msiexec /i Teams_windows_x64.msi OPTIONS="noAutoStart=true" ALLUSERS=1

I haven't tested this but this is referenced in the same link that you posted: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/msi-deployment#disable-auto-launch-for-the-msi-installer