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Create permanent video meeting link in Microsoft Teams
You could ask HubSpot to add functionality to automatically generate Microsoft Teams links using the API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/graph/teams-concept-overview. There are specific commands that can generate new meeting links each time you need them: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/graph/api/application-post-onlinemeetings?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http
You might find them surprisingly responsive, since Covid-19 has boosted Microsoft Teams to be one of the leading online meeting solutions.
Actually, my original use case was similar: I used x.ai to schedule meetings and I was frustrated by the lack of permanent links. But then x.ai added Microsoft Teams link generation, and my most pressing issue is actually solved now. That said, I believe there is still a need for regular users like us to be able to provide a permanent teams link.
Hi,
I can't see any workaround for this. In Lync and Skype for Business it was possible to have a personal meeting room for a users, so they always had the same conference id and meeting URL. Many organisations thought that this was a security risk (wrong people can enter the meeting) so most organisations changed to have dynamic meeting rooms (new URL for each meeting). So of the same security reason I think it is good that it is an unique meeting URL for each meeting in Teams.
Since you are sending an e-mail to the attendees in your meeting, why not change that and schedule an outlook meeting instead. Then it is only one click on a button away and you have created a conference in Teams for that scheduled meeting.
You can also request this solution by creating a uservoice at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/. Microsoft reads these if they get enough votes and then might implement it.
Thanks, LinusCansby, for explaining the security concern as a possible reason why such a feature might be absent. However, as I mentioned at the end of my question, there is a use case for such a permanent link, which is why most dedicated videoconferencing applications offer and boldly advertise this feature. Up till now, I have indeed been generating and copying a unique URL for each meeting, but it is very inconvenient for regular types of meetings with different external people each time (applicant interviews, in my case) and it is a hindrance to automating my workflow.
I have already made a Uservoice post, but with only one vote (probably me) as of now, I don't know if it will get anywhere: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/39869779-create-permanent-video-meeting-link-in-microsoft-t. If anyone reading this likes the idea, please support it by voting on it.
Tripartio , nice work and great suggestion. Let me know if you find anything.
Also, not sure if you've been following it or not but as of now, 01/23/2021, there are 787 Votes on your post. Smart to put the link in this post as it made it easy for me, and anyone else reading this post to click and follow your lead.
Let's hope this rattles the cage in Redmond a bit... and please let me (us all) know if a solution arises.
- We are setting up a calendar for prospects to book time for the marketing interview. The calendar appointment is auto-generated and would need to have a Teams link. We'd need to hard code in a single link into the calendar appointment for everyone who books time.
- The functionality you’re asking is the opposite of one of the key features of teams. If your meetings are with different groups of people, then they aren’t recurring, they are all new meetings. In teams, recurring meetings store history of all past meetings - brilliant feature for what are progressive discussions between teams.
That said there is the possibility to create a private space that doesn’t record history - maybe that would work - but as I said you’re asking for the opposite of what teams is.teamfowlerThe entire point of this thread is that there is a real use case for permanent links that do not save history, beyond the original Teams idea of continous meeting spaces. I am hoping that they will add this feature.
