Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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!

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-emails-open-next-to-web-links-in-microsoft-edge-b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0Open link View original on kbin.social

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HubertManne

kbin.social

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.

nulldata

kbin.social

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"