Forum Discussion
Take Over an Audio Conference as a Leader When it has Already Started
When you dial in to the conference brigde you should hear the option "If you are the meeting organiser, press star now" after you enter the conference id + #. That will allow you to authenticate as a leader using a pin code.
You can change the pin code here https://mysettings.lync.com/pstnconferencing
You can also set who should be able to bypass the lobby here in Meeting Options.
LinusCansby We do have the lobby bypassed. But when the meeting was started via Teams and someone else joins in, the meeting continues but the system knows the leader is not there so it drops people into the lobby and no longer prompts for the pin. (That would have solved everything)
I tried a couple of times now and get the question if I am the meeting organizer and the option to enter a PIN every time, that unlocks the meeting and admits people from the lobby.
You also have this settings in the meeting policy that you can turn on.
What settings do you have in Meeting Options and in Teams.
Also the bypass lobby is still listed as coming soon in docs.
LinusCansby This is my settings for my Audio Conferencing. We do not want to allow anonymous people to start the meeting, granted that would solve the issue, but that is not what leadership wants.
I think this is a situational problem. It only happens if someone joins the meeting in teams and leaves an anonymous user in the meeting. I think the state of a started meeting with no leader cannot be resolved. This could be a tenant issue also, but I'm just trying to see if anyone else has seen this type of behavior from their Teams Meetings and Audio Conferencing.
We do have a workaround and that is to have the meeting organizer always start the meeting in teams and then have the conference bridge dial the conference room phone but that still does not solve the initial problem of allowing the meeting organizer to join a started meeting via audio conferencing.