Forum Discussion
Prevent 3rd Party Bots from Joining Meetings
Is there an option to block 3rd party bots from joining a Teams meeting in the Admin Center or elsewhere in Azure?
Here's the backstory: company users started receiving recaps of their meetings from a 3rd party AI. From testing, if you create a free account on this 3rd party AI app and give it permission to read your calendar, it will recap all meetings associated with your calendar. So, when a user from my company sends this outside person a meeting invite, there is no visibility into whether anybody outside of the company is using this type of solution.
When the meeting begins and a user from my company (organizer) starts the meeting, there is a bot request to join the meeting. While the company user has the option of admitting or denying the bot to the meeting, sometimes this can be overlooked. Due to data privacy, I want to block this bot by username/email as displayed in Teams or even by domain so it can't join Teams meetings preventing any company user from making a decision.
This should now be possible via external access in the TAC where you can block domains like otter.ai etc. You can also do external attendee verification. See here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/join-verification-check
- PLEASE UPVOTE THIS TO GET THE BLOCK AI FEATURE ADDED ASAP:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/e51030ed-1a2a-ee11-a81c-6045bdbbbc93 - This is unfortunate that you haven't gotten any response as I would like to know how to block this as well.
I found a reddit article that discusses this problem, https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/170gh1g/removing_readai_from_teams_for_the_entire/ that seems to block my users from adding read.ai app to the tenant but still working on blocking it from joining meetings from other attendees.Dparrott I also tried adding read.ai to the list of Blocked Domains in Teams. This still allowed the Read AI bot to attempt to join the meeting. Microsoft needs to be able to provide an option to block bots at the tenant level as there are other resources outside of Teams a bot could access. Otherwise, I haven't received any additional updates.
- If I find a way I'll add it to the chain.
