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glindauer
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Jul 21, 2020
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Reusing Teams Meeting URL/permanent "meeting room"

Once I "Meet Now" in teams, I can obtain the URL link to that meeting and save it. Then, even after I leave the meeting and close teams, the link is still good. That is, later I or someone else can c...
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glindauer
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Nov 17, 2021
Yes, if you are the last person in the meeting it will close. However, if other people are in the meeting, it should stay open until the last person leaves. So if others are in the meeting and you leave, and they stay in the meeting, and you go back to that same URL, you should be back with them.

Is it not working that way? Again, haven't tested this since July 2020.
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bevrobertsmentor
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Nov 17, 2021
Yes you can rejoin if someone remains in the meeting however once everyone leaves on the Teams page it then closes the meeting and you can’t rejoin

Happy enough with the workaround I’ve come up with but was hoping for a more elegant solution 😁
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    glindauer
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    Nov 17, 2021
    bevrobertsmentor well, sorry about that. When I enter the meeting with the "copy link" URL (for my test that is

    https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_MDNkMTk1OGYtOTgyYy00MmZjLTgwMzktZTQ3MjQ0YzRjMjkz%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257B%2522Tid%2522%253A%2522dd246e4a-5434-4e15-8ae3-91ad9797b209%2522%252C%2522Oid%2522%253A%25229f2a7a07-760d-45fa-998d-55b0c7f9b7ac%2522%252C%2522MessageId%2522%253A%25220%2522%257D%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=fd8e067c-6632-4a51-8664-b293c7544c5d&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true

    ) from Teams, then leave the meeting as the only participant, then use the URL in a browser to initiate a new call, it works just fine... that's just one user. Maybe some difference in the Office 365 license? Tomorrow I will round up someone else and try more testing, and let you know how it goes.
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      glindauer
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      Nov 18, 2021

      @bevrobertsmentor should have mentioned you, edited to include your name.

      OK, tested today with a group.

      (1) Had four people join the meeting using the above link and we talked for 5 minutes.

      (2) One of us disconnected, then reconnected again using the link, we remained joined to the same meeting. Then we all disconnected.

      (3) Five minutes later a different person reopened the meeting-- he went under the Teams Chat Tab, selected the old (closed-- everyone vacated) meeting from the Chat stream, and clicked join from the right pane to restart the meeting:

      The rest of us joined using the link from a browser. In any case the prior Chat stream was still intact... it was the same "meeting room". This demonstrated you can use the link, or the "Join" from the Teams chat stream to [re]start the meeting. (Need to figure out how to clear this occasionally...)

       

      (4) Then we all disconnected again, and I restarted the meeting from the link. Now a fifth person, who hadn't ever been in a meeting using this link previously, joined using the link (meaning that the meeting remains open to everyone, it's not restricted to the prior group of joinees).

       

      Of course there are security implications with this if you are talking about something confidential, but if you are OK with the possibility of a more open forum this works fine.

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        bevrobertsmentor
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        Nov 18, 2021
        glindauer appreciate your support to find an alternative to my workaround. Were any of these people guests from outside the organisation?

        My client is a private coach who works with different external clients