Lost Hyperlinks for Teams Meetings

holibert

Hi,

when I send a Teams meeting invitation it seems to be converted to text and all links get lost, even in my calendar entry - at least the Button “Join Teams Meeting” is still available here. Other recipients don’t get the meeting link and thus it would be pretty lonesome there.

I am using
Outlook from Office 365 16.0.13530.20440
z-push 2.5.2
kopano 10.0.6.502

Any advise?

Thank you
Holger

fbartels

Hi @holibert,

currently all message bodies in appointments in Kopano are only plain text. So if you have a platform that only sends a html description these information would be lost.

afischer

@holibert
Hello,
although this topic is quite old, I want to share my workaround for this problem:
I found this interessting blogpost which led me to the solution:
https://ucmart.uk/2019/01/14/microsoft-teams-outlook-meeting-add-in-formatting-issue/
I disabled the “Microsoft VBA for Outlook Add-in” via GPO, so the Meeting-Link cannot be created as html but as plaintext.
It doesn’t look very pretty but the plaintext-Link works. ;-)

Best regards
Achim

Pax

@afischer
many many thx for this information. May I ask how you managed to deactivate this Add-In? Via registry key? Where did you find it?
I cant find the VBA Add-In anywhere to change the load behavior.
Actually Im using regestry keys published via GPO to always activate the Kopano Outlook Extension

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Kopano\LoadBehavior = 3

But the Plugin for VBS is listed nowhere under HKLM\Software\xxx or HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\xxx or HKCU

afischer

Hi Pax,
I disabled it via GPO.
It can be disabled under: User Configuration/Policies/Administratives Templates/Microsoft Office 2016/Miscellaneous -
List of managed add-ins --> Enable
Add Microsoft.VbaAddinForOutlook.1 to the list with value 0
This blogpost describes how to use this setting with Office 2013.
Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Achim

Pax

@afischer thank you many times :)

Konguin

@afischer

Thank you for this great idea.

Found a little bug in GPO Path:
the “List of managed add-ins” is located under:
“…/Microsoft Outlook xxxx/”, not under “…/Microsoft Office xxx/”

In my case the full path was:
User Configuration/Policies/Administratives Templates/Microsoft Outlook 2013/Miscellaneous/List of managed add-ins

But it works. Now my OLook uses the “full url” when sending the OL-Invitation. Not very nice, but functionally.
The only thing i’m missing is the sync between OL-Calendar and teams-calendar. Hope this will be fixed soon

Thomas