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Prevent 3rd Party Bots from Joining Meetings
Is there an option to block 3rd party bots from joining a Teams meeting in the Admin Center or elsewhere in Azure? Here's the backstory: company users started receiving recaps of their meetings f...
This is unfortunate that you haven't gotten any response as I would like to know how to block this as well.
I found a reddit article that discusses this problem, https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/170gh1g/removing_readai_from_teams_for_the_entire/ that seems to block my users from adding read.ai app to the tenant but still working on blocking it from joining meetings from other attendees.
I found a reddit article that discusses this problem, https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/170gh1g/removing_readai_from_teams_for_the_entire/ that seems to block my users from adding read.ai app to the tenant but still working on blocking it from joining meetings from other attendees.
Dparrott I also tried adding read.ai to the list of Blocked Domains in Teams. This still allowed the Read AI bot to attempt to join the meeting. Microsoft needs to be able to provide an option to block bots at the tenant level as there are other resources outside of Teams a bot could access. Otherwise, I haven't received any additional updates.
- If I find a way I'll add it to the chain.
- I didn't mention I brought this up to the Teams device product group. They quickly said they are aware. A suggested option was to create a meeting policy and disable 'Anonymous users can join a meeting.' Otherwise, I was directed back to my account team to discuss further.
When I tested the Meeting Policy out, users who didn't have a Teams account weren't able to join the meeting without signing in. Without a Teams account, these users wouldn't be able to join at all. The biggest concern was that the bot could still join, so it wasn't being seen as anonymous.
