Microsoft Teams New Meeting Lobby Enhancement


To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below

We are providing Teams meeting organizers greater control over their meetings by making it possible to require all participants to wait in the lobby.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64643 for the below Feature Release.

How this will affect your organization

After scheduling a new meeting, the organizer will be able to configure meeting options so that only the organizer can bypass the lobby.

After changing the meeting option to Only me, the meeting organizer can manage who is allowed into the meeting.



How this is Useful for the Enterprise Users and the Educational Organizations

After the above feature is enabled all the guest users as well as the users within the organization will have to wait in the Lobby to start the meeting until the organizer of the meeting arrives.

This feature was majorly requested by the Educational Organization wherein Students of the Meeting used to join the meeting before the start of the Class or before the Teacher Joins the Class.

Possible Issues with the Feature if this is turned on by Default

In case the feature is enabled by default and the organizer of the meeting is not joining the Teams Meeting the meeting will never start and all the participants will be stuck in Lobby.

In case the organizer of the meeting is hosting only a Audio Conferencing only meeting, then the organizer will have the punch in the Host Pin for the Teams Meeting to be started and then the participants will be able to join



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