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Allowing guests to start a meeting without the organizer present
We run afterschool programs that rely heavily on volunteers. We have about two to three students in a group with each volunteer. Each group has been given their own link, however our program coordina...
- Surely you have Teams admin center https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/ where you control if "anonymous" users (not authenticated/signed in) can join a meeting and start a meeting. These are two separate settings.
Then use the meeting options for lobby settings if they are supposed to enter automatically or not.
The above settings are only for anonymous users, you can switch the meeting lobby setting to something else, i.e., other identities such as internal users, trusted/federated users and guests.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e
Apart from setting "Automatically admit people" to Everyone, try toggling the "Let anonymous people start a meeting" setting.
Is there somewhere where it is a default setting that meetings can start without a host, always bypass waiting room? I set up a lot of meetings for my boss that I don't have to be in on. It seems weird to only change that option for each individual meeting, and there is no global setting to be applied to all meetings.
I know how to change meeting settings for a scheduled meeting, I am asking there has to be a way to have default settings so I don't have to do it for every meeting. I want every meeting I setup to be that way without me having to do that when I schedule every meeting. Zoom has settings that apply to every meeting automatically without you having to do it for every meeting you schedule. Can Teams do that?
- You’d have to use the Teams meeting policy for that, i.e. change the default lobby setting. But possible yes. With admin assistance.
- ok, thank you. when you say Admin Assistance, are you meaning someone at MS?
See the lobby part https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e
Specifically "People I invite".Depending on scenario you might need to enable "anonymous users can join a meeting" and "and anonymous users can start a meeting". Your admin can assist with that.
