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Give meeting organizers the ability to force mute audio for all attendees in the meeting options page. Attendees should not be able to un-mute their audio with this option set.

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Joshua shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
completed  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

We have launched the ability for a presenter to ‘hard mute’ attendees. This feature gives meeting organizers the ability to mute one to many meeting participants while removing the muted participants’ ability to unmute themselves. For more information, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/manage-attendee-audio-permissions-in-teams-meetings-f9db15e1-f46f-46da-95c6-34f9f39e671a#bkmk_preventunmuting.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In laptop this option is enabled. To do this you should click participants button, three dots(...) then choose don't allow attendees to unmute. If you enable this attendees can raise hand, and you should click on them and choose allow to unmute.

  • Yoshi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi,

    It is announced "launched" in Roadmap but not showing up the feature yet (and still here "In Testing")

    Hopefully soon updated here?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I’m looking for this ability as well - but my specific ask is that the attendees calling in to my teams meeting using phone numbers not have the ability to unmute themselves.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi,
    This Feature appeared for 1 or 2 days in my Teams, then disappeared.
    Is this is issue common or because it is still in "Rolling out"?

    Thanks

  • Bassam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hey Alex/MS Team support,

    I dont know if it is a bug or a right to be granted by admin. It will be great if you could clearify and look into the issue aswell.

    With the recent update in team there is an option availabe now to "Dont allow attendees to unmute". Clicking on which non of attendees can turn on there mic. But the problem is once this option is selected from the organizer there is no option where the organizer can allow the attendees later on in the meeting to unmute them and even the organizer does not have the option to unmute any specific person both for the participents who have raised their hand or not. Even the attendee cannot request to me unmuted.

    I believe once the organizer clicks on "Dont allow attendees to unmute" button it should then say "Allow attendees to unmute" which is not the case right now.

    PFA image for your refrence. I hope this is just a bug and will be soon fixed.

    Regards

  • Mr. K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thanks for rolling this out, unfortunately... Now no one can talk at all, once the setting is on, no one can come off mute at all. Not exactly the fix we were looking for.

  • Santosh K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hard Audio Mute is very much needed, without which the teams platform is incomplete. As the new academic year is started, please release this feature on priority to all education tenants.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is it possible to tell when this will be released?
    Looking forward to the feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When can we expect this new feature ? Its really annoying that student continuously unmute audio in online classes.

  • Christine Goussyra commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please give the presenter control of mute/unmute. My younger students do not stay muted and the constant background noise and echo is extremely distracting.

  • IWantToLearnIt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There is chat if they want to say something (peacefully) -- so they are not completely shunned like what the guy who suggest voting said -- which another feature that for sure would take time and distraction.

  • IWantToLearnIt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There is chat if they want to say something (peacefully) -- so you are not completely shunned like what the guy who suggest voting said -- which another feature that for sure would take time and distraction.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please update us when this feature will be available in Teams, we stuck with students and most time wasted to mute them

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would like for my students to be required to raise their hand and I unmute them for them to be able to speak. I am sometimes interrupted by two or more students unmuting and talking at once (chaos). I then must mute all. Several interrptions occur continuously throughout the lesson and result in slowing the teaching for the day. As a result, it takes three days to cover what should be covered in one day.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    great feature we are waiting as teachers to control the virtual class easily 👍🏻

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