Configure Microsoft Teams Meeting Lobby Settings
Question
You work as a Systems Administrator for your company.
The company has a subscription to Microsoft 365
All users in your company have a Microsoft 365 E3 license.
All users use Microsoft Teams for collaboration.
Users in the company frequently invite external users to Microsoft Teams meetings.
Users report that when the guests join the meetings, they have to wait in the lobby until they are admitted by the meeting organizer.
You need to configure the system to ensure meeting participants join the meeting directly without waiting in the lobby.
What should you do?
Answers
Explanations
Click on the arrows to vote for the correct answer
A. B. C. D.A.
The correct answer to the question is A. Configure the Automatically admit users to Everyone setting in the global meeting policy.
Explanation: When external guests join a Microsoft Teams meeting, they are placed in the lobby by default, and the meeting organizer has to admit them before they can join the meeting. This is a security feature to prevent unauthorized users from joining the meeting. However, it can cause inconvenience to external guests who have to wait in the lobby until they are admitted.
To configure the system to allow meeting participants to join the meeting directly without waiting in the lobby, we need to change the meeting policy settings. Meeting policies in Microsoft Teams control the meeting features available to users. The global meeting policy is the default policy that applies to all users in the organization.
Option A, "Configure the Automatically admit users to Everyone setting in the global meeting policy," is the correct answer to the question. By enabling this setting in the global meeting policy, all meeting participants, including external guests, will be automatically admitted to the meeting without waiting in the lobby. This setting applies to all meetings organized by users in the organization.
Option B, "Configure the Automatically admit users to Everyone in your organization setting in the global meeting policy," is not correct because it applies only to users in the organization, and external guests are not part of the organization.
Option C, "Enable the Allow Meet now in channels setting in the global meeting policy," and Option D, "Enable the Allow Meet now in private meetings setting in the global meeting policy," are not relevant to the question as they are settings for scheduling and starting impromptu meetings, not for controlling the lobby behavior in scheduled meetings.
In summary, the correct answer to the question is A. Configure the Automatically admit users to Everyone setting in the global meeting policy, to allow meeting participants, including external guests, to join the meeting directly without waiting in the lobby.
