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Eli_Taylor
Copper Contributor
Aug 02, 2019

Persistent or auto-start teams meeting for unattended monitor

We have a computer/monitor in the office persistently hosting a meeting which allows remote employee's to join/leave at-will and share their cameras.   The local computer is unattended and needs to...
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ethanolj
Copper Contributor
Jan 28, 2020

If you have a persistent link for the meetings, perhaps try having the URL load at start-up. You would need to ensure that credentials are saved/loaded into the browser.

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    PaulF707
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 28, 2020

    @

    Even with a URL, there are a couple of mouse clicks to get it to open in the teams app, and the another click in the app to join the meeting.

    I'm going to try AutoIt, but I may have to stick with Zoom for this particular usage....

     

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      PaulF707
      Brass Contributor
      Jan 28, 2020

      Found 1 small improvement

      The meeting URL starts teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…….

      If you add in:

      teams.microsoft.com/_#/l/meetup-join/…….

      then this bypasses the option to open app or open in web. (and opens it in the browser)

      I just need to find a way to emulate the 'Join Now' button.......

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        PaulF707
        Brass Contributor
        Jan 28, 2020

        It's not immediately obvious, but the 'Join' button (in Edge) has 'focus' and can be activated by the Enter key.

        This crude solution using VBS and SendKeys appears to be working at the moment (subject to further testing).

         

        ' Open Teams in Edge
        Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
        WshShell.Run "microsoft-edge:[ENTERURLHERE]", 9

        ' Give Teams time to load
        WScript.Sleep 15000
        ' Join Meeting
        WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
        ' Give Teams time to join
        WScript.Sleep 10000
        ' Go Full Screen
        WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
        WScript.Sleep 500
        WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
        WScript.Sleep 500
        WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
        WScript.Sleep 500
        WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
        WScript.Sleep 500
        WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
        WScript.Sleep 500
        WshShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
        WScript.Sleep 500
        WshShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}"
        WScript.Sleep 500
        WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"

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