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Issue with guests bypassing lobby
As an agency we hold information events via Microsoft Teams. This is set up by admin and the settings are set as below, however some guests bypass the lobby and some go in to the lobby. We...
- There is. When using "Only me" everybody else go through the lobby and have to be admitted by you.
This is a change that's coming soon where only the people in the meeting invite get admitted automatically. Everybody else will end up in the lobby.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=68730
thanks for this. So am I right in thinking that there is no way to 100% guarantee that everyone will go to the lobby before being admitted, some people may still come in to the meeting bypassing the lobby?
thanks for your help!
thanks for your help!
There is. When using "Only me" everybody else go through the lobby and have to be admitted by you.
This is a change that's coming soon where only the people in the meeting invite get admitted automatically. Everybody else will end up in the lobby.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=68730
This is a change that's coming soon where only the people in the meeting invite get admitted automatically. Everybody else will end up in the lobby.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=68730
- That's what I thought - thank you. the issue being that the person who sets up the events isn't the person who actually runs them.
that option will be very helpful, as we send the link to the meeting to external guests.
thanks again for all of your help!- You should be able to use the roles for that scenario. In this case specifically the "admit people from lobby" when being a Presenter.
See here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/roles-in-a-teams-meeting-c16fa7d0-1666-4dde-8686-0a0bfe16e019- Great - thank so much again for your help!