Apparently also coming soon to Teams to help us "stay engaged in conversations as you browse the web". Thanks so much Microsoft - I always thought it was my social anxiety keeping me from staying engaged in conversations - turns out I was just using the wrong browser!
In outlook, file➡️options➡️advanced, about halfway down open outlook links in edge in drop down, select default browser. Because we have client that has a dms that only pulls stuff in through Acrobat. Fun couple of hours trying to figure that one out. Bonus, if they use outlook in the Browser, edge opens Outlook attachments in the stupid new sidebar in edge.
This is stark evidence that the fines are coporations are way to low. Wasn't the eu microsoft ones record setting before and here they are asking for a new one.
There's a GPO to turn it off, but you'll need to download the latest Office GPO package. Here's a PowerShell script if you're running an RMM tool - it'll need to run as user:
Function SetRegistryKey($RegistryPath, $Name, $PropertyType, $Value){
# Create the key if it does not exist
If (-NOT (Test-Path $RegistryPath)) {
New-Item -Path $RegistryPath -Force | Out-Null
}
# Now set the value
New-ItemProperty -Path $RegistryPath -Name $Name -Value $Value -PropertyType $PropertyType -Force
}
SetRegistryKey "HKCU:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\links" "BrowserChoice" DWORD "0"
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