How to disable link preview in Outlook on the web

Each time a Microsoft 365 user opens or composes an email in Outlook on the web, the URL in the text or signature is displayed as a link preview. The hyperlinks include a link with a thumbnail image, title, and description. This distracts, takes space, and doesn’t look pleasing to the users. In this article, you will learn how to disable link preview in Outlook.

Disable link preview in Outlook on the web (OWA)

By default, the link preview is enabled in Outlook for all Microsoft 365 users. If users don’t want to see the website preview, they can disable the feature in Outlook.

The user disabled the website preview links in their email.

Disable link preview with PowerShell

You can disable the link preview for a single user or all users in your organization with PowerShell.

1. Connect to Exchange Online

To be able to run the PowerShell commands, you will need to Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell.

Connect-ExchangeOnline

2. Disable link preview for a single user

Powershell syntax:

Set-MailboxMessageConfiguration –Identity <username> –LinkPreviewEnabled $false

Run the below PowerShell command:

Set-MailboxMessageConfiguration –Identity "amanda.hansen@m365info.com" –LinkPreviewEnabled $false

3. Disable link preview for all users

There are two methods to disable link preview for all users:

• Disable link preview, but feature is available to change in Outlook settings
• Disable link preview and remove feature completely from Outlook settings

Method 1: You can bulk disable the link preview for all Microsoft 365 users and keep the feature in Outlook settings.

Run the below PowerShell command:

Get-Mailbox –Resultsize Unlimited | Set-MailboxMessageConfiguration –LinkPreviewEnabled $false

All Microsoft 365 users will see that the link preview is disabled in their Outlook. Of course, each user can enable this feature in Outlook.

Method 2: You can bulk disable the link preview for all users in your organization and remove the feature in Outlook settings. Users will not see the link preview feature when they log into their Outlook, and they can’t enable it themselves.

Run the below PowerShell command:

Set-OrganizationConfig –LinkPreviewEnabled $false

That’s it!

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Conclusion

You learned how to disable the link preview in Outlook. Users can disable the link preview in Outlook on the web (OWA). With PowerShell, you can disable the link preview for a single user and all users. It’s also possible to disable and remove the link preview feature from Outlook for all users in an organization.

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