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Preventing attendees from starting meeting before organiser
Is there a way to prevent invited attendees from starting the Teams meeting before the organiser starts the meeting? My students are able to start the meeting early without me being there but I'd lik...
NICRU You should be able to change your Teams meeting options and set the 'who can bypass the lobby' to 'Only me'. This means that everyone will wait in the lobby until you join and let them into the meeting
Currently you can't prevent this. But there is two updates coming to Teams.
One will change so that only users with permissions to create meetings will be able to start meetings. So if your students don't have access to start meetings themselves, they won't be able to start others meetings. This will start roll out in May.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=63355
The other option is that you will be able to set that everyone except you have to wait in the lobby, this is a uservoice request that Microsoft said they are planning to implement. Vote for this to get it faster.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39962434--wait-in-lobby-for-student-participants-in-sche?tracking_code=dd403596813cb15d18b9015d571ebbd5
One will change so that only users with permissions to create meetings will be able to start meetings. So if your students don't have access to start meetings themselves, they won't be able to start others meetings. This will start roll out in May.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=63355
The other option is that you will be able to set that everyone except you have to wait in the lobby, this is a uservoice request that Microsoft said they are planning to implement. Vote for this to get it faster.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/39962434--wait-in-lobby-for-student-participants-in-sche?tracking_code=dd403596813cb15d18b9015d571ebbd5
The lobby has been the default setting for organising meetings since last week, depending on your update schedule.
