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Admitting lobby people
Hello people Is it possible to set up so that only organizers can admit guests who are in the lobby and not any authenticated users ?
Right click on the TESTE user and select "Make an attendee" and then test if you get the option to admit people from the lobby.
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ThiagojSilva Check this new features coming to Teams
New meeting lobby setting: only the organizer joins the meeting directly
A new lobby setting is coming to Teams Meeting Options. We are adding “Only me” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby” setting. Once enabled, only the organizer will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else, including people from within the same organization, will be sent to the lobby.Swaminathan_Arumugam; is there a way to restrict who can allow people into the meeting? Looking to have people join for portions of a group meeting but don't want to allow everyone that is in the meeting access to allow others to join. TIA
Swaminathan_Arumugam I'm hearing reports of a similar issue occurring in our organization. This is a hospital where physicians are communicating with covid-19 patients and their family members via Teams. My guess is that someone other than the organizer was able to admit this person into the meeting. I do see the option under "Who can bypass the lobby?" But this doesn't say anything about who is allowed to admit people that are waiting in the lobby.
Thanks.
Please check below the meeting policy.
Setting value Join behavior
Everyone All meeting participants join the meeting directly without waiting in the lobby. This includes authenticated users, external users from trusted organizations (federated), guests, and anonymous users. Everyone in your organization and federated organizations Authenticated users within the organization, including guest users and the users from trusted organizations, join the meeting directly without waiting in the lobby. Anonymous users wait in the lobby. Everyone in your organization Authenticated users from within the organization, including guest users, join the meeting directly without waiting in the lobby. Users from trusted organizations and anonymous users wait in the lobby. This is the default setting. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teams?WT.mc_id=TeamsAdminCenterCSH#bkparticipantsandguests
Only Organizer and Presenters are allowed to admin people from the lobby to join the meeting, not attendees. There is no way to change this to only Organizers.
LinusCansby this isn't what happens in practice.
We often have meeting attendees who decide to admit someone in the lobby (when the meeting organiser wanted to keep them there for a few more minutes.
Have we given our meeting attendees too many permissions?
Hello Linus thank you very much for your help
I don't know if I expressed myself correctly.
What is happening is that meeting participants who are not team presenters or administrators are receiving the guest notice in the lobby and are allowed to admit.
In this case, we are using Teams in this pandemic for sessions between judges with all formality and lawyers who are not members of that court are invited, and we would like that these notices were not generated to the "Participants" nor that they could admit, leaving this function only for "Organizers"I made a simulation in this image attached with a user "TEST" who is only a participant and the admission MSG appeared to him even though he was not an admin or presenter.
- Can Microsoft please look into this so that the Organiser is the only person allow to admit guest into the meeting. When a guest logs in, all attendees get the notification to admit the guest but this function should be left with the Organiser only unless other wise granted.
