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Andrea_Medina
Copper Contributor
Jan 27, 2021

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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  • arsenijemne's avatar
    arsenijemne
    Copper Contributor
    There is feedback posted related to this that we should upvote:
    https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/3f2963cf-0e59-ec11-a819-6045bd7f58fb
    • arsenijemne's avatar
      arsenijemne
      Copper Contributor
      And here:
      https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/03d2cb41-1773-ec11-a81b-6045bd7bf64c
  • Marielle Vena's avatar
    Marielle Vena
    Brass Contributor
    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 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

    • sd adm's avatar
      sd adm
      Iron Contributor
      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?
      • evanbartley's avatar
        evanbartley
        Copper Contributor

        sd adm 

         

        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.

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