Open teams meeting link on linux doens't work

Thomas 166

on version: 1.4.00.4855 of teams it isn't possible for me to use a link to go in a teams meeting.
How can I resolve the problem?

daerron 6 Reputation points

2021-03-10T09:26:31.093+00:00

I started experiencing this issue with Teams somewhere during this week on 1.3.00.30857 and uninstalled and upgraded to 1.4.00.4855 using the .deb package hoping that this would address the issue, but it doesn't appear to solve it.

It is quite annoying in attempting to join meetings and I had to revert using the browser version. Clicking the open in xdg-open link does take me to Teams, but doesn't launch the join meeting screen.

I would appreciate if this could be looked at since it was working fine until recently.
Martin Skøtt 6 Reputation points

2021-03-10T09:49:57.867+00:00

I experience the same issue on Fedora 33 with the RPM version of Teams. I get links to meetings in e-mails or Google Calendar and usually clicking the link would open the meeting in the Teams client. Following the update to 1.4.00.4855 the client is still opened, but it doesn't join the meeting. It doesn't emit any error messages.
Sergio Manuel Fernández Sastre 1 Reputation point

2021-03-10T09:54:00.293+00:00

Same problem with ubuntu 18.10 elementary OS

How to downgrade version to previous one?
Anonymous

2021-03-10T10:24:13.63+00:00

You can find the deb packages here
Just download the version from 01-Dec-2020. You can also see how frequently we receive updates for the teams linux client.
Tudor Tabacel 31 Reputation points

2021-03-10T10:26:56.84+00:00

sudo apt install teams=1.3.00.30857 should install the precise version 1.3.00.30857, if you have installed MS Teams from the dedicated APT repository
Hylke van der Schaaf 6 Reputation points

2021-03-10T12:43:14.44+00:00

Same problem on Linux Mint.
Downgrading helps.
eric 1 Reputation point

2021-03-10T19:02:22.56+00:00

Same problem on ubuntu 20.10 with 1.4.00.4855
downgrading to 1.3.xxx helps
Marcus 411 Reputation points

2021-03-11T08:45:53.42+00:00
A colleague of mine has found out that the last line in /usr/bin/teams is messed up. It needs to read:

nohup "$TEAMS_PATH" "$@" --disable-namespace-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox > "$TEAMS_LOGS/teams-startup.log" 2>&1 &

That is, the "$@" basically just needs to move further to the left.
Guenter 11 Reputation points

2021-03-15T12:03:10.757+00:00

thanks; applying this change to /usr/bin/teams fixed it for me
Marwan Sultan 6 Reputation points

2021-03-16T01:56:02.983+00:00

Amazing changing that line.. did the trick. i wonder how your friend found that bug or got that idea?
Michael Wettach 1 Reputation point

2021-03-22T18:53:53.927+00:00

On Linux Mint 18.3 with Cinnamon desktop this workaround enables using the browser link "start now": the desktop app with the correct meeting is opened. However, for some reason calling teams on the command line with modified link (change https: to msteams:) does not open the meeting.

Nevermind, I am satisfied that there is at least one way to open meetings in the teams app. Thanks for sharing.
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,056 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-03-23T06:27:58.407+00:00

We can confirm that this is a bug now. Microsoft will fix it with next version.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Dominik Mierzejewski 1 Reputation point

2021-03-23T10:19:16.153+00:00

Confirmed issue and fix on Fedora 33 as well.
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,056 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-04-12T09:48:58.58+00:00

@Thomas
Now, this issue is fixed in Teams for Linux version 1.4.00.7556(64-bit).
If your client is the older one, please update to the latest version.
Lenko The Server Engineer 1 Reputation point

2021-04-19T03:35:51.683+00:00

Confirmed this fix is also working in Pop_OS! 20.04 LTS.
Arthur Longhurst 1 Reputation point

2021-05-12T09:59:30.07+00:00

Fixed it for me too on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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Marcus 411 Reputation points

2021-03-11T08:45:53.42+00:00
A colleague of mine has found out that the last line in /usr/bin/teams is messed up. It needs to read:

nohup "$TEAMS_PATH" "$@" --disable-namespace-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox > "$TEAMS_LOGS/teams-startup.log" 2>&1 &

That is, the "$@" basically just needs to move further to the left.
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Tudor Tabacel 31 Reputation points

2021-03-11T09:16:39.72+00:00

I'll try to modify the startup script so that it keeps track of the changes that you suggested and will get back to you with results.

Thank you :)

Edit:
I have updated to 1.4.00.4855 and changed the startup script per your recommendations, now it works. Thank you :)

eric 1 Reputation point

2021-03-11T12:41:44.563+00:00

Same here : I have updated to 1.4.00.4855 and changed the startup script per your recommendations, now it works.
(Ubuntu 20.10)
thanks a lot!

Roberto 1 Reputation point

2021-03-11T12:54:54.643+00:00

Same here on Fedora 33: "$@" solved the problem passing the url (args...) to teams app! thank you!

daerron 6 Reputation points

2021-03-11T15:12:16.563+00:00

Thanks a lot for that fix, solved the issue here as well!

Anonymous

2021-03-11T15:22:34.19+00:00

Nice, it works again.
Thaks for sharing the fix @Marcus and thx to your colleague 🙏 for solving the issue.

Olivier Caron 1 Reputation point

2021-03-11T22:25:48.537+00:00

Thanks for finding the issue; they managed to mess up despite having the most basic package, what a terrible quality control!

Theo B 1 Reputation point

2021-03-11T22:29:17.617+00:00

Linux Mint 20.1. Same problem. Fixed per the instructions by @Marcus above.

One key item: you must be part of a Teams organization, even if it's just your family org.

Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,056 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-03-12T03:47:47.93+00:00

@Marcus
Thanks for your kingly sharing. It benefits many people.

@Thomas
You could accept this suggestion as answer to help more people with the same problem.
Thanks for your understanding.

Thomas 166 Reputation points

2021-03-12T08:20:19.417+00:00

Do I still need to make a ticked?

LORRAIN Stéphane 91 Reputation points

2021-03-12T15:35:32.153+00:00

Thank you! The fix works!
Clearly Microsoft is not doing enough testing for their desktop Linux software. They probably have thousands of developers for Linux on Azure, but only one intern for Teams on Linux. Disappointing.

Anders Larsen 1 Reputation point

2021-03-19T09:33:31.357+00:00

I can confirm that your fix works for me - thank you!

Jaap Versteegh 1 Reputation point

2021-03-24T10:42:27.58+00:00

Thank you. This works.

Typical Microsoft. Teams is entirely useless without this feature and yet, well.. It appears to be just Windows ME all the way down at MS....

Bill Hogg 1 Reputation point

2021-03-24T11:52:14.223+00:00

i have done the above suggested fix, but the app still requests me to login to the meeting. but if i join the meeting using the option to @continue on this browser" i am able to connect to the meeting without entering my email. i am a guest to a schools virtual meeting so i dont have a loin. i am using linux mint (latest version) and teams 1.4.00.4855

my windows 10 laptop doesnt have the issue and when i join using the app it goes straight into the meeting

Czenito 1 Reputation point

2021-03-26T09:50:38.977+00:00

Works on Xubutnu 20.04.2 LST as well.

Krzysztof Rudź 1 Reputation point

2021-03-29T06:50:01.417+00:00

"$@" did the trick for me (Fedora 33), but it would be nice ta have it fixed in next versions.
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Tudor Tabacel 31 Reputation points

2021-03-09T13:15:49.323+00:00

Hello! I have just updated to 1.4.00.4855 via normal (Microsoft provided) Ubuntu repositories and the meeting links are not opened in the Teams application. Downgrading to 1.3.00.30857 brings back the functionality to open the meeting links from the browser to the dedicated Teams app. I assume that the link handler got lost, somewhere :) I have checked the .desktop file in both, it looks identical. I assume that the change that broke this feature is part of the internal (or command line driven) meeting URL handling.
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Anonymous

2021-03-09T14:20:18.407+00:00

Since nothing really changed in the new version, except of more bugs, there is no need to update it. Let's wait for the next bug release in 3 months and see what else the development team can break :D

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Tudor Tabacel 31 Reputation points

2021-03-09T14:30:55.423+00:00

I hope this strengthens the justification for an automated test case for opening meeting links from a browser, or some command line handling of the links generated when clicking on M$ Teams meeting URLs.

Thomas 166 Reputation points

2021-03-09T18:25:42.937+00:00

I really hope that too!

eric 1 Reputation point

2021-03-10T19:01:10.167+00:00

Same issue here, using ubuntu 20. Upgrading to 1.4.00.4855 as part of the regular updates broke the 'open link to join meeting' functionality.
Very problematic as I get invites via email and then cannot join the meeting.
Happens with both firefix and chrome, so it's not a browser issue. The link is recognized, the browser calls up MS teams (app comes at the forefront) but it doesn't open the meeting.
Reverting to a previous 1.3.xxx version solves it for now.
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FlorianScholz 1 Reputation point

2021-04-13T08:09:40.163+00:00

I think it is fixed now
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GBL 6 Reputation points

2021-04-27T18:00:02.057+00:00

No, it is not, in the latest version (1.4.00.7556).

If you click the xdg-open link from the browser, and the teams app is not open yet, it'll open, but not join the meeting.

If you click the link while the app is open, it will join the meeting.

So if you don't have teams on autostart, or if you've disabled the "On close, keep the application running" checkbox, you need to click the link, wait for teams to open, then click the link again.

a.key 6 Reputation points

2021-05-04T14:50:36.18+00:00

I confirm this is still an issue on: 1.4.00.7556 (Fedora 33)

IF the app is already opened the link will work fine and open the "Join the meeting" dialog but if the app is not already running it will just start the app but not join the call.
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Korzennik, Sylvain 0 Reputation points

2023-02-06T18:18:13.08+00:00

Indeed, the problem is back, and IM(H)O it has nothing to do with the version of TEAMS you run on your Linux box, or the configuration of the browser. Some genius at Microsoft decided to process a link in the form

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/....

differently when the browser runs under Linux.

If I click on a teams invite on any of my Windows machines, I land on a page w/ the usual choices: use the app or use the web version.

The same link under Linux (from Chrome or Firefox) show a choice for 1/10 of a second, but w/ no time to select it almost directly goes to the web version (or croaks w/ a typical inane message).

This is NOT what should happen if the Microsoft software architects had a working brain and would use it.

This worked fine until a (few?) month(s) or so ago, since I tinkered w/ xdg-open to catch a msteams://xxx specification.

Why fix something if it ain't broken and in the process bear things - the web version is clunky at best, and no I do not want to run everything under a browser.

I can go to the calendar of Teams itself I can join a meeting via the ID and passwd, but why is teams.microsoft.com making the wrong decision for the user instead of giving the choice avail under Windows?
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Jan Sobota 0 Reputation points

2023-02-06T21:42:43.0733333+00:00

Observing the same issue in v 1.5.00.23861 on Mint/Ubuntu.
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Jan Sobota 0 Reputation points

2023-02-06T21:44:13.1533333+00:00

Observing the same issue in v 1.5.00.23861 on Mint/Ubuntu.
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Open teams meeting link on linux doens't work

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