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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
No option for this in our paid Office365.
Why is it so hard to get a straight answer to what should have a simple solution? (I don't mean you, Vasil).
1. Someone sets up a Teams meeting on behalf of other people ie: a client and a job applicant for an interview.
2. The organiser is not attending the meeting.
3. The client and candidate are able to bypass the lobby, but ONLY if I join the meeting.
4. I don't need to join the meeting and just want it to proceed without my intervention.
5. The is no "Anonymous" setting in the paid Office365 MS Teams we use, which has no administrator as it's on subscription.
6. It's damned annoying as people are left waiting in the lobby although settings are for them to bypass the lobby.
7. Please HELP, as it seems there are loads of people with this issue, but none of the answers pertain to the issue.
Thank you.
Why is it so hard to get a straight answer to what should have a simple solution? (I don't mean you, Vasil).
1. Someone sets up a Teams meeting on behalf of other people ie: a client and a job applicant for an interview.
2. The organiser is not attending the meeting.
3. The client and candidate are able to bypass the lobby, but ONLY if I join the meeting.
4. I don't need to join the meeting and just want it to proceed without my intervention.
5. The is no "Anonymous" setting in the paid Office365 MS Teams we use, which has no administrator as it's on subscription.
6. It's damned annoying as people are left waiting in the lobby although settings are for them to bypass the lobby.
7. Please HELP, as it seems there are loads of people with this issue, but none of the answers pertain to the issue.
Thank you.
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
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
- Hi, I have the same issue. I have enable guest access in Teams Admin and Anonymous users can enter. But the guest still cannot start a meeting or join without a host. Please help me!!!
