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Office 365 users in teams meeting show as guest
During a team video meeting (a class), I saw that most of our students (who all log in with their office 365 accounts) show up as "guests". This happened to me last week (but fixed itself), and toda...
henhen59 When users join a teams meeting as a "guest" it indicates they are a guest user on the tenant conducting the Teams meeting which can be verified in Azure Active directory > users
- But how can this be true if all classmates received the same invite link? My guess is that my child uses own laptop and others have a school loaner with Microsoft Teams already installed? Please advise.
- The most likely cause is the student is not logged into their provided edu account and logged in / not logging into Teams and using the join link anonymously. They must make sure they use the client and or log in to the proper account when joining the meeting.
The guest restriction usually happens when the meeting is a channel meeting, which means you must be authenticated using a tenant account in order to chat.
If you want to make your meetings less restrictive when it comes to joining you would want to not assign the meeting to a channel when creating it then guests / any user with the link can join and chat, but this does make it less secure obviously.- Thanks, the instructor sends the same link to all classmates. My child always starts with the school issued logins, then follows instructor page and clicks a link. Sounds simple right? But some students show as guest and others show as student which is frustrating. Day 1 of elearning 😩
