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Teams Room System (formerly SRSv2) does not recognize externally hosted Teams meeting
Hi All,
At times, we receive Teams meeting invites from people outside of our organization and we would like use our MS Teams Room System (formerly Logitech SmartDock Skype Room System v2) to join the meeting.
What we have been doing is we forward the Teams meeting invite sent by the external organization to the room resource, manually accept the invite from the room resource's mailbox, and the MS Teams Room System recognize the invite as a Teams meeting (the Teams Room UI shows a "Join" button and an MS Teams logo instead of "..." button ). All good so far.
Going forward, I want the room resource to process those forwarded external Teams meeting invite automatically which has been resolved by executing the following powershell Cmdlet :
Set-CalendarProcessing -Identity "Room 221" -ProcessExternalMeetingMessages $trueHowever, now every time we forward an externally hosted Teams meeting invite to the room resource, the Teams Room System does not recognize the invite as a Teams meeting (the Teams Room UI shows a "..." button instead of a join button). I've done the steps outlined in this article (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-IT-Pro/SRS-V2-externally-hosted-meetings/m-p/84810) as well but it's still not working.
Has anyone else experienced this issue or know how to fix this ?
Update: We have had some occurrences where the Teams Room System does not recognize the external invite as a Teams meeting when we accepted the invite manually within the room resources mailbox.
Cheers,
Brian
H Brian,
I'm a couple of steps behind you and still trying to add our meeting room to an externally hosted meeting. I've tried forwarding on the invite to our meeting room with the Teams Room System, but nothing is appearing in it's calendar. The room does not seem to have a mailbox to check - is that normal? The room has a Meeting Room license but no Exchange Online license.
Do you have any pointers?
Thanks,
Pete
Peter Nicholson Have you tried logging into outlook.office365.com as the meeting room in a web browser and does it show the inbox? The account that you are assigning the license to does have an Exchange Online mailbox, which doesnt require a license as long as the type is resource.
bchristian915 i've just tested this and confirmed it works for me. My setup is an Intel NUC with MTR loaded and a USB-connected touchscreen (Logitech Tap system).
I've confirmed that when enabling the processexternalmeetingmessages flag, external guests can either invite the room by its email address, or internal staff can forward an externally-created meeting request on to the room. It will be automatically accepted, show on the MTR Display, and be recognized as a teams meeting with a join link.
Has this come right at your end or are you still seeing issues? Have you tried to reset the MTR app back to defaults and configure it again with the room account?
UnearthSo far I've got no more issues regarding this. Everything's working as expected all of a sudden.
bchristian915 have you figured this out? We have the same issue but it seems to only affect certain external meeting, not all. I am guessing this could have with the external company's teams settings maby? I do not know wich one, and was hoping you might figured something out?
Hi Brian,
I'm having the same issue. I only see the "..." instead of the join button. I've also enable the external processing capabilities without any luck. Did the issue came back or once it starting working normally everything works since?
thank you,
Marc-André
MADrouin Has anyone had any luck getting this to work?
Any Rooms that are directly invited are showing the 'JOIN' button as expected, however if we forward a Teams meeting request to the rooms they refuse to recognise them as Teams meeting and just show the 3 dots.
We've configured the settings as per everyone's recommendations (don't delete subject or comments, allow external), but its made no difference.
This is quite frustrating so any thoughts would be much appreciated! đŸ™‚
Mark Taylor Hi Mark,
we opened a ticket last Friday. I'm hoping that they can help us with the issue.
We have also found that if you forward the meeting internally, the join button appears. We can reproduce the issue only when the meeting if forwarded to the room when the meeting is created from an external contact.
Marc-André
- We had a problem with similar symptoms: when an external invitation was forwarded for VC equipment, the device did not recognize the MS Teams link as valid. We found out that customer email security rewrites the URL of the invitation. So we added an exclusion to "https://teams.microsoft.com" on the email security portal, and the problem got fixed.
