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Reusing Teams Meeting URL/permanent "meeting room"
The expiration windows are documented here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams#meeting-expiration
@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.
My client is a private coach who works with different external clients
bevrobertsmentor I’m afraid none of the test subjects were outside the organization. The links *should* keep working the same way whether inside or outside the organization, but I didn’t test that.
Regarding privacy, I don’t think there is a way to clear the chat stream— you can delete your own individual messages, but not those from others. So if you were reusing the link from different people they’d see the prior chats. You could turn off the chat but haven’t tested whether attendance and recordings would still show up in the chat stream, need to test that.