Prevent users from joining a meeting
Add a setting to prevent users who are not a member of the Team/O365 Group from joining the Teams meeting. This setting should exist in the Outlook client as well as the Teams client, web app, and mobile app.
Similarly, prevent people who were not invited directly by the meeting organizer from joining the meeting. (e.g., meeting invite was forwarded or meeting link was copied and sent to user who was not directly invited).
Theresa Eller
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57 comments
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Anonymous
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This is very much needed to prevent uninvited users from joining confidential meetings.
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Luke Yates
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Potentially a safeguarding risk; students can access meetings as guests (if allowed in) and we have have several instances of students "hiding" the suffix "(Guest)" so that it's very much harder to spot them! Please disable the "copy join info" button and disallow guest access when a CLASS Teams is set up.
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Adam Fosker
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This feature needs to be developed ASAP for use in the education sector.
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Jon Martin
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We would find this feature very, very useful. It is something we have used extensively with Zoom. We used it to "lock" meetings after our clients had "left the meeting" so that we (my staff) could discuss in "Private" w/o having to be concerned with the client re-joining.
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Anonymous
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Not only this, but also the ability to lock a meeting once all invitees are present (or force latecomers into the lobby).
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TM
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In an educational environment this setting is a must! I totally agree!
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Anonymous
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This is needed. It's essential that people can't forward the meeting link or click the link button during the meeting - we've had external students from outside our school joining our meetings and there is no way of knowing who gave them access. Massive problem and using a lobby just creates more workload for staff. Please sort this.
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AC
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We need this now please! It is a massive safeguarding issue in schools! We have had several times this week where students have been using this loophole to get others into trouble for disrupting lessons. Also a concern about sharing links to students not in the same school and opens up further issues.
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Anonymous
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We really really need this! This is a MASSIVE safeguarding hole in Microsofts platform. The students share the links with their mates or worse and then they can pretend to be anyone as it just asks for a name and the teacher has no proof it is them or not. If each student had a unique invite that would make this more secure!
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Anonymous
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In schools it is so important to prevent anyone adding people to the group apart from staff. Anyone could join the lesson. Huge safeguarding issues. Please help to keep our students and staff safe.
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Anonymous
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Yes please add this setting. It would create a more secure environment, this technology is fast moving and we've got to keep a step ahead.
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Anonymous
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This is a very important safeguarding issue
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Anonymous
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Definitely an important issue with regard to safeguarding in schools.
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Barbara Eggleton
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Serious safeguarding issue in schools. Students should not be able to share links to others outside the team either!
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Lorraine Taylor
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This would be so useful for teaching and support staff... please consider this option.
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Rob Holmes
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Hugely important for schools, but also many businesses who use guest access for some meetings, but the majority are internal only. Being able to restrict access to those who you've invited (Be that the team members, or who you invited in your to field) would provide a lot more reassurance that your meeting is safe.
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Julian Berrow
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This has important safeguarding implications in a school context; it is all too easy for a teacher who is trying to multi task their way through an online lesson to admit entry to an outsider by mistake. In my experience of this, the person concerned repeatedly kept trying to be admitted to the session despite my continually refusing them entry. It could have been all too easy to click on the admit button.
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Lin Simms
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This is critical in the pandemic - "guests" are being sent a link by classmates outside of the organisation then joining and wrecking lessons! What a nightmare that this cannot already be controlled.
this will not only be a game changer but might stop thousands of young teachers finding this remote learning too hard to manage and leaving the profession. At this point it is demoralising and dispiriting to deal with this idiocy from the minority of students. -
Anonymous
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This could be a game changer for schools!!! Any student could invite anybody to the meeting which is a serious child protection issue. I know that you have to admit them from the waiting area - but you don't want to have to do that individually with a class of 30 children - and if you admit all you're in trouble.
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Anonymous
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Please add a setting to prevent user to join any meeting where they are not allowed or invited.