MS Teams

[rzuritamilla]

Hi,

Perhaps a(nother) newbie question but the MS Teams handler does not work as expected. Finicky does open MS Teams but it does not go to the corresponding url (I am clicking a link that should take me to a file). Instead MS Teams stays where I last left it (file or team or chat window). Do you have any tip for me?

[johnste]

Sorry, I'm not a user of MS Teams myself, so I won't be able to help you here.

[thomasLeclaire]

Hello,
just got a look and yes this ms teams handler does not work as expected.

There is several things :

• first the teams internal url is not msteams://xxxx but msteams:/xxxwith only ONE slash. (the microsoft magic..)
  so it need to have a custom version here for teams. I just provided a PR for this purpose: Msteams #169

• Also, the common links shared in invitations (at least in my company!) have structure like this one :
  https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_xxxx&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=uselessHere&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true

which need to be converted into :
msteams:/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_xxx with xxx url-decoded
all the arguments are globally useless.

ie these rewrites :

    {
      // handle teams redirects
      match: /teams.microsoft.com\/l/,
      url:  ({urlString}) => decodeURIComponent(urlString.match(/^.*teams.microsoft.com\/(.*?)\?.*/i)[1])
    },
    {
      // handle teams redirects
      match: /teams.microsoft.com\/dl/,
      url:  ({url}) => (decodeURIComponent(url.search.match(/^url=.*(l%2F.*?)&type/i)[1]).match(/^(.*)\?.*/)[1])
    }

and this handler :

    {
      match: /l\/meetup-join|l\/channel/,
      browser: 'com.microsoft.teams',
      url({ url }) {
        return {
          ...url,
          protocol: 'msteams',
        };
      },
    },   

[gerwitz]

I have success with a very simple handler:

    {
      match: /^https?:\/\/teams\.microsoft\.com\/l\/meetup\-join\/.*$/,
      browser: "Microsoft Teams"
    }

[thomasLeclaire]

I have success with a very simple handler:

    {
      match: /^https?:\/\/teams\.microsoft\.com\/l\/meetup\-join\/.*$/,
      browser: "Microsoft Teams"
    }

not working on my side, like there is still the double slash issue.

which Teams version do you have? and do you have any example of a full link?

by the way, your handler match only one type of teams links, but there are the webcast, the files, the channel ones at minima.

[gerwitz]

Teams version 1.4.00.11161, but this has worked for quite some time over many updates.

Indeed I have only one use case, and it is for joining scheduled events. I’m in a big corporate IT setting, and created this to handle the “join” links that appear in calendar invites that sometimes aren’t recognized by Teams to trigger a nice join button (and before Outlook even tried.

[santry]

I'm on Teams version 1.5.00.31156 and macOS Ventura 13.0.1 and the other solutions in this thread have not worked for me. I came up with the following, which does work for launching meetings for me:

module.exports = {
  defaultBrowser: "Safari",

  rewrite: [{
    match: ({ url }) => url.host === "teams.microsoft.com",
    url({ url }) {
      // Build the URL string manually so we get the required single "/" between "msteams:" and "l/meetup-join…"
      return "msteams:" + decodeURI(url.pathname) + "?" + url.search
    }
  }],

  handlers: [{
      match: ({ url }) => url.protocol === "msteams",
      browser: "Microsoft Teams"
  }]
}

[adamcstephens]

Thanks! This works perfectly.