personal meeting room
I have been using gotomeeting and zoom for a while and both provide a "personal meeting room" link that I can put in my signature. I can tell anyone I need to meet with (internal or external) to click the link in my signature to meet now and they will get put into a lobby until I start up my meeting. I also get notified if someone is sitting in my lobby waiting to start a meeting. This would be the final feature we need to switch over to Teams.
Dave Baldwin
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Anonymous
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pretty obvious need, to keep up with the competition and serve business users....waiting.
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Eric Reynolds
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Needed for us to switch over to Teams
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Anonymous
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This is the only thing standing in the way of us ditching zoom completely.
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Anonymous
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Agreed, this would make our work in higher ed much much easier. Teams is better than webex, but we can't fully switch yet b/c of this.
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Anonymous
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Agree, we need a personal meeting room with a waiting room functionality.
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Lee Brackney
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We really need this functionality to completely replace WebEx. Even Zoom has it. The workaround is ok for short periods of time and a few meetings set up at the same time, but way too cumbersome for long-term use. Please make personal rooms with a permanent URL a priority, thanks!
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Peter S
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Personal room definitely needed. Currently the only thing forcing me to use Cisco WebEx
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Cheryl Reynolds
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This is a deal breaker for using Teams to book tutorials with Uni students. I need to put the location of the meeting in the invite I send to all tutees, rather than creating a fresh link for every tutorial after they book a time. Many hours of work in administering this and prone to error or oversight.
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Anonymous
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Personal room, please Microsoft !
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Anonymous
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We also use permanent online meeting rooms via gotomeeting. This is a main pitfall for MS teams.
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Jose Antonio Silva
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Teams should support an easy join url. for example sip:email@corp.com
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/direct-routing-protocols-sip
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Anonymous
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I think this might be an architectural challenge for MS Teams as it creates the space for each meeting but the other way around. I can see the use case of personal meeting room, but isn't this causing the security risk like the Zoombombing?
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Anonymous
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Absolutely needed for recurring meetings with different outside persons.
Is the reason why i am using zoom for this kind of meetings. -
Anonymous
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Should be a standard feature!!
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Ron Kendig
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I will chime in on this one. Come on guys! Really Microsoft!
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Bruce Wilson
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+1. This is a feature in Bluejeans I used all of the time.
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Anonymous
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100% agree. Pls implement this
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Michael
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This would help a lot with adoption efforts. Users could add the personal room link to their signatures (like they're used to with competitor products such as Webex)
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Revenue Grid
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We very need this static meeting URL option! That's why we're still using Webex and GTM
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Jonathan Whiteman
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I agree, I really want this feature and use the free version of Zoom for a lot of personal meetings because of it. There is a work around though. You can use the "meet now" function in the calendar in teams to start a meeting. Use the invite others option to generate a link. Paste that into an email, word doc, whatever. Copy the link from that (I know, it doesn't work to just paste it into Notepad - don't know why). Then use a URL shortener like bitly to shorten it and you now have a live link that anyone can join any time. You need this link to join from mobile though because there's no "meet now" option in mobile. I keep mine in OneNote so it's available on my phone and tablet and for copying and sharing. GTM, Zoom, WebEx all have this figured out. Hopefully after a couple of years Microsoft will realise the need for this also.