Teams

Microsoft Teams is a web application that needs a browser as a runtime environment. In order to keep things simple - at the expense of disk space - the Teams installation package contains not only the actual web app but also all components that are needed to run it, including Chromium. When you launch Teams, you’re really launching the Chromium browser, which then executes the embedded Teams web app. Teams’ browser-based architecture presents challenges when you want to count the number of Teams instances that are running or when you need to find out how many instances of Teams have been started. This article presents multiple ways to determine accurate application usage data.

This post lists the internet communication targets of Microsoft Office and Teams. It is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.