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Prevent members from starting a meeting within larger Teams Channel
Hello! Currently, there are no options to prevent group members from starting a random/rogue Teams Meeting within our larger Teams (around 2,000 people). Can we get a feature that allows you to prevent all members except owners or select individuals from starting Teams Meetings within the group?
It's creating a nuisance with some members not fully understanding the platform and starting random meetings that ping the entire group, with us having to send out formal "disciplinary"-type emails on the back end. This is not a great user experience for all.
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- There is feedback posted related to this that we should upvote:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/3f2963cf-0e59-ec11-a819-6045bd7f58fb- And here:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/03d2cb41-1773-ec11-a81b-6045bd7bf64c
- This happens at least once a month with an ERG which includes over 1000 members, including some executives. There NEEDS TO BE an option to restrict the ability for non-Owners to create channel meetings or meetings on behalf of groups!
Andrea_Medina I agree that this is a nuisance problem which needs to be addressed for the domain level Team.
- It's definitely an issue for the domain level team that your admin created, as well as the OOtB Org-Wide Team MS provides.
See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/org-wide-team-settings/m-p/2657759
Andrea_Medina Hi, you can use this meeting policy.
-AllowChannelMeetingScheduling
Determines whether a user can schedule channel meetings. Set this to TRUE to allow a user to schedule channel meetings. Set this to FALSE to prohibit the user from scheduling channel meetings. Note this only restricts from scheduling and not from joining a meeting scheduled by another user.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-ps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teams#meeting-policy-settings---general
- It sounds like that affects the user's ability to create meetings in channels in ANY Team. Is there a way to do it per channel/team?
Eg. prevent users from creating channel meetings in the General Channel of the Org-Wide Team, but allow them to create channel meetings in other Teams?This is still an issue with Teams. There is evidently no way to limit the scheduling of meetings in a specific channel, unless you affect the users' the ability to create meetings in all channels.
