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Removed external meeting participant can easily rejoin
hi, this is still behaving as described above. Can you please provide update on the fix to address this? This is very troubling that a user can just jump back into a meeting. VasilMichev
Erscpa725
this pointless re-animation of a session still seems to work!
Why no
1) Fix
2) comment from MS
Come one - this is clearly a very silly design decision. Although I can see that this might work against a genuine attendee who was dropped through connectivity issues and I suppose, could be used against a genuine user in some kind of DOS attack, the fact that the system redisplays the join details must mean that state information is being used to get them back into the meeting at the same status so it would be possible to use this (or remove it entirely) to bounce them back to the lobby. Surely if there is any concern about people "wrongly" going back to the lobby when they had a technical fail, this could be a meeting option?
"users who are dropped or removed must renter via lobby" checkbox - those who have poor connections and few "abusers" could choose not to use this - the rest of us set it up so that anyone who is disconnected by remove or drop re-enter through the lobby.
I'd also like to see a ban option but I can see how this with unvalidated users (anonymous) could be used to mount DOS attacks on innocent attendees but anyone who is that important could be made a guest and validated and it would take some technical skill to spoof an IP address (could be part of the ban table)
Would also be useful if there was an option that forced everyone to go through the lobby should it be required so that internal people can be bumped to there as well.
Trevor Baxter
Hey Trev - this in development and we should have it in June 🙂Will force even internals to go to lobby
the issue has nothign to do with who is forced to go to the lobby - although Only me (which is referred to in one of the working on is useufl).
The problem is that currently that someone who enters via the lobby. is accepted but then removed (e.g. for disruption) from a meeting by an organiser r presenter can rejoin without being held in the lobby. Teams even puts a helpful rejoin button their screen all they have to do is press it to circumvent the remove.
Please confirm that it is a requirement to return to the lobby if you use rejoin that is being worked on,
otherwise, you will not be fixing the issue.
(I say one button rejoin for someone who was booted is just a good old fashioned bug)
Yes, I understand that with no authentication, they could rejoin with a new identity and the lobby monitor would have to make a judgment call but at least that takes a while - straight back in with a single press makes remove utterly pointless.
Agreed. The inability to remove someone from a meeting is a terrible design flaw.
Come on, Microsoft!
