outlook 365 keeps asking to be default mail program

If you’re an IT pro worrying about these changes disrupting the workflow of users in your organization, Microsoft will send a 30 days notice before the change is implemented in Outlook for Windows.įortunately, organizations with a Microsoft 365 for enterprise plan will be able to manage this change by using a new policy to keep opening web links in a different browser. “In the future, a similar experience will arrive in Teams, with web links from chats opening side-by-side with those chats in Microsoft Edge,” the company explained.

Links that are set to open in a client app or within Outlook for Windows will continue to do so.

Web links from other accounts will open in an Edge tab without the side-by-side experience.

Web links from Azure AD accounts and personal Microsoft accounts will open in a new Edge tab, and the email that included the links will open next to that tab in the Edge sidebar.

The software giant claims that this upcoming change is designed to “help increase productivity while working online,” though the experience in Outlook for Windows will differ depending on the email sender: The company recently announced the change on its Microsoft 365 Admin center (via The Verge), and it’s planning to roll out a similar change to Microsoft Teams as well.

Microsoft will soon make web links from emails in the Outlook for Windows app open in Microsoft Edge by default.

Outlook 365 keeps asking to be default mail program