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Preventing attendees from starting meeting before organiser
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
My solution may or may not work for you. But I have found that if I set the "manage channel" permissions to "only owners can post messages", then I am the only one who can start a meeting, since I am the only owner. Members cannot start meetings at that point.
This is how I keep my high school students from starting meetings without me or starting their own meetings I cannot supervise.
Steve880I checked my permissions, and they are indeed set as you have described, but my students are still able to start the meeting without me. I have it set to send them to the lobby, but I would prefer it if they did not start the meeting. Do you have any suggestions as to what other settings I might check?