Open Microsoft Teams chat from web application

Question

Is it possible to open chat window in Microsoft Teams app from a web page? I am creating one web application that shows list of members in a team. When user double clicks on item in that list, it should open chat window in Microsoft Teams for the selected team member. For Skype for Business, there is sip link format available which opens a chat window for the user. Is there any similar format available for Microsoft Teams? Thanks.

Frequency

Please try out deeplinking to a chat to open a chat window with the user in Microsoft Teams. – Avid

Answer 1

The problem with the Deeplinking to chat option is that you are redirected to the teams website then prompted to launch MS Teams.

I have been able to solve that by utilizing a combonation Deeplinking and the MSTeams protocol. MSTeams protocol works like SIP would for Skype.

<a href="MSTeams:/l/chat/0/[email protected],[email protected]">Teams Chat</a>

Now Teams launches without the redirect to the Microsoft website.

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