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How to block users from joining meetings without the presence of the organizer?
I have the following problem, the teachers are scheduling their classes and the students are being able to join the conference videos without the teacher giving permission. I need to shield this. I n...
- The lobby settings are for external attendees. Internal attendees can join meetings at any time and I do not believe you can change this currently. What I would suggest is setting up the meeting without the Teams link in it and paste a link to the channel instead. (Right click channel, get link) assuming everyone in meeting is in the Team since you previously did channel meeting. Now when it’s time to start the class the Teacher can just go click “Meet Now” as a new conversation and name the class and then everyone will get an alert and see the meeting box pop up to click to join.
Hopefully that works out for you as a work around.
Diosney_Gomes solutions to these problems are coming very soon.
Check the blog post here, scroll down to coming soon. Many of these features such as Chat Control are hitting our education tenant now. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/education-blog/microsoft-teams-meetings-for-the-classroom-what-to-use-now-and/ba-p/1282906
Chris_Laycock Diosney_Gomes The problem with using a Meet Now is that you cannot set students to be attendees and you as the only presenter before the meeting and doing it in the meeting is too time consuming and probably late - so they can mute and kick people out the meeting. So step away from one problem into another!
