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Allowing guests to start a meeting without the organizer present
- 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
This is crazy terrible - should not be that hard. I still can't get this to work, so my clients suffer. Why is this so obtuse? Please make this easier - maybe think of the user friendly concept???ismaelkurban
xxxxx915 We're still having this issue. Anyone have any luck?
Guys,
Please follow the below steps and wait at least 24 hours for changes to take effect.
1- 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.
2- Under the Meeting Join and Lobby area there is a setting for "Anonymous users can join a meeting". Turn that on.
3- Then turn on "Anonymous users and dial-in callers can start a meeting".
4- Make sure "Who can bypass the lobby" is set to Everyone.
When I completed the steps it didn't work immediately. But the day after it worked.
ismaelkurban1 I'd prefer not to allow anyone/anonymous to start a meeting and for external guests/customers to bypass the lobby. I just want anyone in my org that is an attendee to the meeting to be able to start the meeting and add Lobby people to the meeting. I tried to use "People in my Org" but that doesn't seem to work.
