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Verify email of external participant - Join as invited participant
I have a question about invited participants to a Teams meeting. If I invite an external participant (for example account@gmail.com), how does the Teams meeting know that the person joining from ...
- Hello, this is the definition of that choice "Authenticated users from within the organization, including guest users, join the meeting directly without waiting in the lobby. Users from trusted organizations and anonymous users wait in the lobby. This is the default setting."
In other words, people not being invited to your org. as a guest, that is federated/trusted and anonymous users will get stuck in the lobby and someone must admit them. Unless they are invited as a true guest user within your org (a guest account is created in your Azure AD) OR you can change the lobby setting for the specific meeting to let in federated/trusted directly, and even anonymous users having the link forwarded or similar, if selecting the option Everyone.
So guest users are in your Azure AD with guest accounts. Federated and Anonymous are not, if not explicitly invited.
You can change the settings for guests to be allowed in without sitting in a lobby. Does that help or do you need something else?
- Thanks, Terry. This is certainly a workaround for meeting join options, but I would still like to understand if there are instructions we can provide external participants so that they join as an invited participant (where Teams recognizes their specific email address), rather than a guest. This has impact on items like MC226407 - Updates to meeting chat membership.
- What about the individual meeting settings? It might be a pain setting it each time, but it is better than nothing. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e.
