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Brett Wilms
Mar 12, 2021Iron Contributor
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 ...
- Mar 15, 2021Hello, 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.
Brett Wilms
Mar 15, 2021Iron Contributor
ChristianBergstromI appreciate you taking the time to try and help :). Who can bypass the lobby? is set to "People in my organization and guests"
ChristianBergstrom
Mar 15, 2021Silver Contributor
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.
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.
- Brett WilmsMar 18, 2021Iron ContributorThanks for helping me work through this. I think I've got my head around this. In short, there isn't a simple way for Guests to appear as Invited Guests. They would need to be guest accounts in our tenant for this behavior.