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Federated vs Trusted organizations in Meeting Policies
Hi Team gurus! I have been testing out the Microsoft Teams meeting policies for a client and I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing the same behavior in the Lobby option as I am: The glob...
see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/skypeforbusiness/set-up-skype-for-business-online/allow-users-to-contact-external-skype-for-business-users
- Hi Rob,
Thanks for your reply.
The doc site doesn't mention anything about trusted or federated organizations and what the difference is in terms of Meeting Policies in Teams.- Agreed, and apologies for not explaining further. Federation is the concept of allowing a Skype for Business or Teams organisation to communicate with another Skype for Business or Teams organisation, e.g. via instant messaging / chat, without the need to invite each other to a pre-booked meeting, or add guest accounts in either tenant.
That article explains how to allow / block all or specfic organisations.
My understanding is that by default, Skype for Business Online (and Teams) are configured to use 'open federation' - which means that users from any other organisation using Skype for Business Online or Teams would be able to bypass the lobby, because they are treated as 'federated' or trusted.No worries, and thanks for your reply once again.
So by design, because federation is open to all external tenants with Teams/Skype they are all treated as trusted?
In that case, if i remove the "federation" by disabling the External Access for SfB/Teams in the Teams Admin center, all other organizations would then no longer be treated as trusted?
Then it would only be the organizations that I add list below, that would be able to bypass the lobby?:
It's actually quite amazing that this isn't mentioned in the docs nor anywhere else, as it is in my opinion, very misleading.
