Microsoft Teams - Can't Connect To The Internet - Request Timeout After Second Start

Question

After a clean install, I can start Teams, login and use it normally for the first run only. But when I close the application and try to restart it later, there is a delay of around 55 seconds, which ends with a request timeout.

I tried to delete the files in the Teams folder and found that the error wouldn't happen the following file was deleted:

%AppData%\Microsoft\Teams\settings.json

However, every time Teams is started, the file is created or overwritten again.

The next step was to find the exact setting within the settings.json file. After I change the enableProcessIntegrityLevel property-value from true to false and save the file, Teams starts once, without the timeout error:

"enableProcessIntegrityLevel":false

What does this value exactly do and how can I fix the problem?

Teams version 1.0 did not have this issue, but I updated to a newer version and cannot downgrade to the version that worked for me.

Some Details:

Teams version: 1.2.00.8864 x64 (last, from 30.03.2019)

Tried on:

• Windows Server 2016 x64 1607 Build (14393.1884)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 7601 Build SP1
• Windows 7 x64 / Windows 10 x64

Error message:

Oh no ... we can't connect to the internet. Check your connection
Error code - Request timeout
Failed to connect to settings endpoint

Teams-Log:

Teams try 7 times to connect somewhere but this fails.

In this tech community thread are some more log files instances from when this error occurs.

EDIT:

Hi, today I found a workaround for the issue :)

1. Sign out and close any instances of Microsoft Teams running.

2. Navigate to the following path: %userprofile%\appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams

3. Create a json file called hooks.json

4. Use your favourite notepad editor, add the following line to the newly created file:

   {"enableProcessIntegrityLevel": false}

5. Save and close the file.

6. Now, re-open Microsoft Teams and sign in.

Source: thread on answers.microsoft.com

We will now distribute the hooks.json file via a policy.

Answer 1

the error no longer occurs since the MS teams application was updated (can not remember but it should be one of the last versions of 1.2 or one of the first versions of 1.3).

Here are the steps for the workaround again:

• Sign out and close any instances of Microsoft Teams running.
• Navigate to the following path: %userprofile%\appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams
• Create a json file called hooks.json
• Use your favourite notepad editor, add the following line to the newly created file: {"enableProcessIntegrityLevel": false}
• Save and close the file.
• Now, re-open Microsoft Teams and sign in.

In the current MS Teams version (1.3.00.30866 x86), the settings.json file contains the "enableProcessIntegrityLevel" value several times, sometimes it is "true" and sometimes "false". This led to a malfunction (webcams and microphones were sometimes no longer recognized), so that we had to delete the hooks.json files from the user profiles.

Until then, the solution with the hooks.json file had worked well. The solution can also be used for other purposes to define settings for the MS Teams application.

Sorry, I was not aware that questions that do not contain an answer are still considered unsolved.