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CatalinStaicuAlex 

In that case when creating a Teams meeting, don't associate it with a Channel of a Team. That way there will only be the meeting to join. As opposed to being added to a Team as a Guest.

Thanks

Henry

Thank youHenryPhillipsNimbitech 

Sorry for this late answer.

I just want quest people not have permision to press Meet now button. I just want they can only Join a meeting, not create one..

Thanks

Hi CatalinStaicuAlex ,

With regards to the participant list download, see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/download-attendance-reports-in-teams-ae7cf170-530c-47d3-84c1-3aedac74d310

However the last time I checked, this was only an option whilst in the meeting and not afterwards. Also this may not be present in the free version.

As for the disallow video meeting, could you explain a bit more please?

Do you mean whilst in the meeting, you do not want people to be able to show video, so effectively the meeting is audio only, bar yourself who will be video/screen sharing?

Live Events spring to mind but you don't get that in the free version. Teams at its core is designed for two way collaboration. That is way Live Events comes in for more conference style sessions.

You do however get some meeting options, which are as follows:

1. Set who can bypass the lobby

and 

2. Who can present, such as just yourself but not sure this will disable video but it would at least stop sharing content. So this will be your best option to set and see how you get on.

You will get the chance to select meeting options when scheduling via the meetings left hand nav option or when within a meeting you should have a link for meeting options too.

Thanks

Henry

and  how can set app to disalow owners to make video Meeting?

Hello againHenryPhillipsNimbitech .

So , I just have ended a meeting with 45 Guest User (I added to Manage team- add member). They all are Guest users.

Everything was good.

I have a question, how can I view who participated to meeting after the meeting video has ended.

Thanks!

Thank you very much for youre time and response.

For this confference I can't acces the paid teams version, we have some strange policy in the institution. But in the future I will tell them that is a must tu buy the paid Teams app.

For now for the almost 300 people I have two options:

• fast one: create meeting, send link meeting thru e-mail (Outlook), Guest connect teams with a Name (without user account in teams), they cannon chat, they can see and hear the presentation, they can use microphone?
• hard one: create meeting, add guest member by e-mail, send them thru e-mail, guest recive e-mail - create teams account...they can chat and see presentation

I think , fast one is solution, is easy for guest ( they don't need to create a teams account), they can join now thru link, only typing the name.

Thank you again, you where so kind to answer my question.

Best regards,

Catalin Staicu

Hi CatalinStaicuAlex ,

I think what you really need in this scenario is the paid for Teams and make use of a feature called Live events. That would make your life so much easier from a conference stand point where the participant could be anyone and you then have a select amount of presenters controlling the content.

For the free version, you are loosely right, although not sure about the 330 as that exceeds 300. That is another thing Live Events has a much higher participant limit.

The other thing is that really you do not want to be adding in Guest accounts for the sake of a conference really, so with the Link method you could do the Meet Now or Scheduled and provide that link. Which I think is what you were proposing to do. When setting up the meeting you can also go into privacy settings and allow only people in your Org to present, that might help with the presenter side of things.

I also found it a bit hit and miss when adding external, so the best outcome I got was when going into the Manage Org option you identified, adding in the Guest via email invite and providing they had gone through the Invite process I was then able to join successfully.

Also from a chat perspective, if the meeting is created outside of a Team, so via Meetings on the left Chat is available and after the meeting you would be able to go back to the chat via the Chat navigation element on the left.

If the meeting is created from within the Channel of a Team, then yes Chat is only available to those that are members of the Team.

I would say that the Outside of the Team method technically fits the bill better though, as this is a conference and not a Team of people working on something as such.

So to clarify, yes to the 300.

Yes to chat if outside of a Team and No, unless a Team Member if inside of a Team

I would also consider the paid for version of Teams as it has a feature that was made for this type of scenario, which I think we are really trying to imitate.

Thanks

Henry

Thank you for reply.

So, to be clear I understand, if I do a meeting, and send the link meeting after I press meet now button, it is possible to acces that link let's say 300 people (Guest - users without a Teams account), the chat will not be accesible by guest, but the video will be active for all 330 guest?

Question2, if above question is pozitive, if I add 300  members to a meeting (add member by e-mail address), members that will create microsoft account to login to teams, and start a meet now, send invitation by e-mail...all 300 members can join in meeting room, and video, chat and microfone will be aacessible?

I use free version of teams

Sorry for this repeat questions. In Octobre, I must prepare a video conferencing, and almost 300 people will register to it.

Best regards

Hi CatalinStaicuAlex 

Limits of Free vs Paid for:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/differences-between-microsoft-teams-and-microsoft-teams-free-0b69cf39-eb52-49af-b255-60d46fdf8a9c

For features that are available in free and no specific limitations for it, it comes down to general limitations of Teams:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams

The below is taken from the above link in regards to meetings:

Feature Maximum limit

As for the Manage Org link, that is a new one on me but after checking I have come to this conclusion:

It must be a new way of handling existing accounts that have accumulated within a Free Teams Org and looks like a handy higher level way of adding in accounts and inviting people. I am impressed.

As for the why in one and not the other, as with a lot of features. Particularly if new, it may just be a trickle effect and has not been updated to reflect this change in the area that hosts one of the your Free Teams Orgs over the above.

The above is of course speculation, so do not take it as gospel.

Thanks

Henry