Yeah we can only hope for better versions to come that improve battery. I noticed that when I'm on a Teams call I'm constantly between 9-16w, with shared screen 16W usage.
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MS Teams....very depressing.
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I bit the bullet and downloaded Caps Lock Tone from the App Store. It's AS native and seems to work pretty well. I turned off the on-screen indicator (it's a little obnoxious) and turned on the menu bar indicator (which looks good, actually). Left sounds on. I'm satisfied with it.
Removed Captin. I believe all my software is 100% native now.
I don't think so, not directly (see below). But it can be set to change color, so it goes from white to red when Caps Lock is pressed/on. Also makes a sounds when toggled on & off. Sound is customizable. The dock icon can be hidden and has a couple other options which I haven't tried. Mine dock icon is hidden.
However, I use Bartender, so I don't even see the Caps app icon in the menu bar unless I press the Caps Lock key. It then disappears when Caps is off (customized through Bartender).
The fully native build is now in production, I just reinstalled from the oficial website and updated the Core Audio Driver that now show Apple kind.
are you sure? i just downloaded the latest pkg with ver 524264 and it still ships with intel core audio driver. the preview one though has the new driver
It's showing native audio driver for me, maybe its because I had the preview installed before, but I did uninstall it first using app cleaner
That's probably it. The driver is still installed. Since the latest .pkg still ships with the legacy Intel core audio driver . But yeh the preview one has the new driver now. Just a matter of time before it rolls out to the stable builds
Yeah I decided to make a correction statement on https://techcommunity.microsoft.com...timized-for-apple-silicon/bc-p/3615172#M11027
I thought 1.5.00.24264 in the Public Preview Channel was Rosetta 2 free because of the build number but no. It looks like it will come in a future Public Preview build.
Doing a bit of digging between the middle of August 2022 and now, Microsoft has been compiling two versions of the Universal binary. There are builds that are Rosetta 2 free and builds that require Rosetta 2 which means not all 23xxx and 24xxx builds are Rosetta 2 free or possibly include an arm64 driver.
You can take a look at hostArchitectures in the Distribution file and see if it contains "arm64" to be Rosetta 2 free.
Okay so I download the lastest microsoft teams from the website, install it and then go to /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/ and just straight up delete the M$ core audio driver folder thing.
And that's it, no more intel running and I can still call / video chat / request control with microsoft teams like normal
And that's it, no more intel running and I can still call / video chat / request control with microsoft teams like normal
Yes. You don't need the driver for those things. You only need the driver to share audio when screen sharing
Oh, you mean share the computer audio driver (for example: play a movie on my computer and whoever see my screen can also listen to the movie audio?)
I understand, thank you!
P/S: I also have no need for this so I can remove this
Yes. As far as I understand. That's what the audio driver is used for
I reinstalled Teams recently, but the Intel-based audio driver was still there. I didn't manually delete it though. If we manually delete the audio driver and then reinstall, will it install the Intel or AS/Universal version?
That worked... uninstalling the program (using Cleaner One Pro) and then manually deleting the audio driver first followed by reinstalling Teams resulted in the new audio driver being Apple based.
There was an option to skip it. I'm tempted to uninstall, reinstall, and skip it this time. I don't share audio with Teams and I wonder if it will just improve resources/responsiveness of Teams. Will test on my laptop first.
There was an option to skip it. I'm tempted to uninstall, reinstall, and skip it this time. I don't share audio with Teams and I wonder if it will just improve resources/responsiveness of Teams. Will test on my laptop first.
Rather significant security issue for Teams
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Microsoft Teams stores auth tokens as cleartext in Windows, Linux, Macs
Security analysts have found a severe security vulnerability in the desktop app for Microsoft Teams that gives threat actors access to authentication tokens and accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) turned on.
Seems like your computer/network would already have to be compromised for this to be exploitable, or am I missing something else here.Rather significant security issue for Teams
Microsoft Teams stores auth tokens as cleartext in Windows, Linux, Macs
Security analysts have found a severe security vulnerability in the desktop app for Microsoft Teams that gives threat actors access to authentication tokens and accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) turned on.
Just because your "computer/network" is compromised, doesn't mean apps shouldn't better defend themselves.
Other processes can collect the credentials. They can be picked up in backups. Many vectors to pick them up when they're sitting around in cleartext. Supposed to be storing these auth tokens in the keychain, which stores them in the secure enclave for both iOS and macOS. Windows has its own keystore for storing/accessing credentials as well.
Electron really needs to disappear.Rather significant security issue for Teams
Microsoft Teams stores auth tokens as cleartext in Windows, Linux, Macs
Security analysts have found a severe security vulnerability in the desktop app for Microsoft Teams that gives threat actors access to authentication tokens and accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) turned on.
I don't have the HAL folder in that directory despite having the Intel Microsoft Core Audio Driver running as a system process.
