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Meeting option: who can bypass lobby
Thanks ChristianJBergstrom to pointing it, and yes that removed the "forward" option from Outlook as well. But then does it mean that the "Meeting Options" on Outlook are not working as expected? As the forwarding was still allowed on Outlook, but not in Teams.
And if we are super sharp, in my mind those settings are not even promising the same:
"Disable forwarding" does disabling only the forwarding the meeting invite to others. It doesn't promise to do anything else.
While Outlook or meeting options web site says: "People I invite" are able to join. Even in a brackets the disabling the forwarding is mentioned.
And then we are coming to the real problem. Poor end user might believe that this is a secure way to protecting the meeting from unwanted participants. But at least even the forwarding was disabled on the meeting invite, still others were able to join when the join link was sent further.
- No problem mate. It works the same if using the Outlook client and removing the check from the menu bar. It's the invite itself you cannot forward, the receiver still has the option to simply copy the meeting link. Yeah, it could cause confusion obviously but I feel it's more associated with adaption and user training as with many other scenarios. It's actually pointed out in the official docs as well in the bottom part https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/prevent-forwarding-of-a-meeting-8cd354e5-b319-403e-8dd2-88b8ee89b4dd
ChristianJBergstrom the article is fine, but wishing to see some references for Teams client as well.
And about the adoption of the services, in my mind this kind of item should not have space for the confusions. Either it does it and users can trust it, or it should not say so. Actually following Ben Donaldson idea from different angle, much more correct text would be: "Prevents meeting forwarding". Perhaps the whole option is under wrong title, as this have nothing to do with lobby.