Forum Discussion
Solved
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
In the Teams Admin Console go to Meetings-Meeting Policies and select the Global (org-wide default) policy. Located here: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/meetings. Under the Meeting Join and Lobby area there is a setting for "Anonymous users can join a meeting". Turn that on. Then turn on "Anonymous users and dial-in callers can start a meeting". Make sure "Who can bypass the lobby" is set to Everyone.
Jason_Sele Thanks.
However;
DONE: In the Teams Admin Console go to Meetings-Meeting Policies and select the Global (org-wide default) policy. Located here: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/meetings.
DONE: Under the Meeting Join and Lobby area there is a setting for "Anonymous users can join a meeting". Turn that on.
DONE: Then turn on "Anonymous users and dial-in callers can start a meeting".
DONE: Make sure "Who can bypass the lobby" is set to Everyone.
Still, my Guests are waiting in the lobby unless I start the meeting as the organizer.
Any idea?
ismaelkurbanI'm assuming this is resolved since you didn't reply again, but I wanted to suggest that you may need to make a new meeting invite for the new settings to take effect. Old settings would likely persist with any meetings that were set prior to the policy change. I hope your issue is fixed!
- Yes, it is solved. I had to wait for one day for changes to take effect. Thanks!
Those setting are the only ones that I see to control it. Are you changing the meeting options when you create the specific meeting? That could be overwriting the admin console settings.
