New Teams Mutes Mic When Clicking Hyperlinks

When dialing out by clicking a hyperlink on a web page New Teams opens a prompt asking you to confirm that you would like to call the indicated number. The call is placed after clicking the blue Call button and the microphone is automatically muted. I can't seem to find any setting that allows toggling this behavior in New Teams. I also can't unmute the microphone until the call is connected. Here is a screenshot of the Call dialog from a web page:

This is really not ideal and only seems to be happening with the New Teams client. It also does not seem to happen automatically for inbound calls or those placed using the dial pad. Having to unmute for each outbound call (hundreds or thousands daily from our CRM and other systems) is really quite unacceptable. Has anyone else been able to figure out how to handle this?

This change is not mentioned in the What is changing in the new Microsoft Teams or Known issues in the new Microsoft Teams desktop client pages.

For those looking for some relief, there are reports (and works for me as well) of being able to click the Mute icon exactly once while the outbound call is ringing and when connected it will automatically unmute. Through our combined efforts there are also multiple tickets open with Microsoft that give hope that the issue has been identified and will be included in the fixes for R1.5 which is planned to be released around mid-January though may take longer for general availability.

From our support ticket with Microsoft here is the update from Feb 2024 we have from them:

"The issue is fixed till development ring. For next deployment, Product team still evaluating if they can enable the feature in second level for development ring by today (or if they need to wait for a couple of more days). This is under discussion. Given that many are impacted due to this issue, product team is trying a make a separate small change to resolve the issue faster for everyone. But still, this may take February end to get the fix fully deployed. So ETA for general ring will be by end of this February."

In early March 2024, here is the update from the support team:

I can see this case has taken quite a bit longer and we really apologize for this delay. As you aware this is a bug where the product team has already developed a fix, and the fix has been released for TAP customers, but due to some other issues the product team has stopped rollout of this fix for general customers. Also, the product team has not shared any ETA to complete the roll out. We have reached out again to the product team and asked them to share a tentative date for ETA.

Timeline:

• Issue was first reported on Reddit on Sep 14, 2023
• Rumblings at work but nobody sure what is going on other than don't use New Client
• This post on MS Answers forum on Dec 4, 2023
• Support Partner opens ticket with MS on Dec 11, 2024
• MS first starts deploying fix around Feb 14, 2024
• MS pauses rollout around March 7, 2024
• MS resumes rollout around April 5, 2024
• Builds suffer from regression and issue returns on April 16, 2024
• Partially resolved (hyperlinks work, Outlook contact cards no) on May 15, 2024 with client version 24041122315
• New ticket opened with Microsoft Support on May 22, 2024 to resolve muting issue when dialing from Classic Outlook Contact Contact cards - does not seem to impact New Outlook as it uses technology similar to the web browser
• Builds released to general availability during the week of 2024-07-15 seems to have addressed final muting issue from Outlook

Latest Updates:

This is started to be resolved as of the following Teams version:

You have Microsoft Teams version 24004.1307.2669.7070.

You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 2/14/2024.

The client version is 49/24010419130.

With the pause to the rollout, it is confirmed to still be an issue with the following version:

You have Microsoft Teams version 24004.1309.2689.2246.

You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 3/7/2024.

The client version is 49/24020205515.

Final Update (we all hope)

The most recent update as of April 8th seems to have resolved the issue again. While we didn't have to follow the additional steps, I am listing them here in case anyone needs to use them:

• If Teams is still running, right-click the Teams icon in the taskbar, and then select Quit
• Open the Run dialog box by pressing the Windows logo key + R
• In the Run dialog box, enter %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams, and then select OK
• Delete all files and folders in the %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams directory
• Restart Teams

You have Microsoft Teams version 24060.2623.2790.8046. You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 4/8/2024.The client version is 49/24022924517.

No Longer Final Update

It would appear that the issue has returned. Clearing the associated APPDATA folder does not resolve the issue and we have reopened our ticket with Microsoft. Reports from this thread indicate it may have started with releases on April 16th, with numerous confirmed cases on April 17th.

You have Microsoft Teams version 24060.2623.2790.8046.
You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 4/17/2024.
The client version is 49/24031414718.

and still present up through this build:

You have Microsoft Teams version 24091.214.2846.1452.

You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 5/14/2024.

The client version is 49/24033101817.

According to our support rep the muting issue should be fixed in versions >=24041122310, which has expected release on the 15th of May.

It does appear to be mostly resolved with in the following build, though dialing a number from an Outlook contact card still has the call muted by default:

You have Microsoft Teams version 24091.214.2846.1452.

You've got the latest version. It was last checked on 5/15/2024.

The client version is 49/24041122315.

Note: The Teams versions won't necessarily increment, though the "last updated" date will often roll forward when checking. We have been on the same "version" for days despite the last updated date always moving forward. Maybe I should file that bug too? You can find lots more version info available here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/teams-app-versioning and here https://github.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/

According to the agent working our support ticket the fix was originally scheduled to be released to GA during the week of May 6-10, though it is now scheduled for the 15th.

Muting From Classic Outlook Contact Card

We have opened a new ticket with Microsoft on 2024-05-22 to address the issue of the outbound call initiated from a Contact Card in Classic Outlook (new Outlook uses browser-like behavior). We were initially told there was not a current engineering issue filed but have since received word it is in fact logged already. Not sure what to believe at this point but will continue to provide periodic updates.

The current messaging from our support ticket is that it should be fixed in the GA / Ring 4 rollout scheduled for June 20th. We are asking for build numbers to help confirm but have not received them yet.

Update: It appears that it has been fixed with versions rolling out the week of 15-July-2024. Hopefully there are no other regressions that bring the muting back.

Teams version: 24165.1414.2987.41 Client version: 49/24061318408