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Teams meeting - End call when the organizer leaves
Good morning to all the community,
I need help and advises about Microsoft Teams meetings.
We recently ask users to use Teams when they need to realize conference call.
However, we noticed that users in the Teams meeting can still speak when the organizer leaves. This is a functionality we would like to delete due to confidentiality.
- Is there a way to end a conference call when the organizer leaves ?
OR
- Does the organizer must do something in order to close the conference call in the meeting ?
Hope you'll be able to help us.
Kind regards,
SB.
Hi SB_AS
Updated Dec 2021
You can now End Meeting for everyone. This is under the dropdown on the leave button at the top right of the screen
Hope this answers your question
Best, Chris
SB_ASI suspect this feature is not fixed because not fixing it results in more income.
In collaboration systems, there are generally two costing models:
- fixed price, pay one fee
- floating price/cost plus fees
Companies that offer fixed price tend to optimize profits by reduce costs. For meetings, especially where telecommunications are involved, that means disconnecting participants at the earliest possible moment.
Teams is a cost plus model. With the telephony enables, you are consuming credits for every minute a phone is connected. In this model, the longer participants are connected, the more Teams makes. Fixing the poor user/company experience would hit the bottom line for the profit center.
Its one of many issues in teams that is SUPER annoying and that other systems do pretty well.
Our issue is that a participant can rejoin the meeting on accident later in the day. When this occurs, the Meeting attendance report (CSV file) gets regenerated with only that single participant info.
Our L&D team uses these CSV files to communicate out to attendees after a training has ended. They DO have the ability to look at previous lists of attendees in the Attendance section of the meeting calendar item, however its been tricky for them to screen scrape the list in HTML, and make that useful data/recreate the CSV file format.
In theory, if the meeting host ended the meeting (and it was not recurring), then a new meeting report would not auto-generate - but does not appear to be a good way to do that. Possibly, looking at using waiting room and Microsoft's upcoming ability to set co-owners of a meeting can solve this issue by not allowing any attendee into the meeting automatically - we shall see.
- Once the meeting has ended have the organiser go into the meeting options and select Only me who can bypass the lobby. No one else will be getting back into that meeting 😄
Sometimes, I have to leave the meeting for a while and return to the meeting. So, the meeting should continue while I am away.
But a student sometimes organizes a meeting in a channel and I should be able to kill the meeting as the team owner. Even the global admin cannot end the meeting. That is the problem which should be solved.
you can remove the linger-on participants then hang-up.
The option to end meeting doesn't show up if you did not start the meeting even you're the organiser.
SB_AS, end meeting feature has been made available as of today so an organizer can end the meeting for all. Microsoft is releasing the ability for meeting organizers to end a meeting for all participants with the click of a button. Meeting organizers can now find an option to “end meeting” in the meeting control bar options.
That is good news as far as it goes. A meeting can now be terminated by the organizer, yes, but only if the meeting was started spontaneously. If a meeting is planned ahead of time using the meeting calendar of teams, it can still NOT be terminated as a whole. What you can terminate is only the active session of such a meeting. For both organizer and participants can always re-join that meeting and start a new session of the planned meeting. In other words, they can re-join or reactivate a meeting that took place weeks or months ago.
Beat Affentranger, that's true, they could rejoin afterwards but it does end it and not sure how many would go back. Hopefully a better end meeting will be developed.
Jeffrey Allen Is it possible to get back to a meeting after leaving it if I'm the organizer? Thanks for the response
chrysa_40, if you just leave then you can go back in by clicking the join meeting button again. End the meeting is different than hanging up in a meeting as end the meeting ends it for all participants.
It's pretty obvious that Microsoft doesn't really listen to its customers. SB_AS
It was... until we got an answer three years later. Better late than never
Todd_Moore - This UserVoice just reached "Testing" stage yesterday: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18715552-allow-organizer-to-end-meetings
- Hi!
Not as of today. The meeting continue on and can be living onIf I'm the organizer and I leave the meeting, how can I rejoin the meeting?
- Thank you for your prompt reply !
Does it answer to the second question too ? We cannot manually close the conference call ?
