Allow organizer to close participant video in Teams meeting
When having multiple persons participating Teams meeting often it is nice to join with video on. Sometimes others may suffer a poor-quality connection or have their webcam pointed in other direction than it supposed. Is there a roadmap to allow the meeting organizer to switch off the participants video like you can mute other persons?
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Jen
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This was added by Microsoft today to another post with the same request
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We are excited to announce we will soon be releasing the ability to disable all attendee videos, and the ability to disable a single attendee video.
Please see https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=70620 and https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=70621 for further details.
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Sharon
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I work in health care. We record webinars that are later shared on YouTube and our website. It is completely improper to have people's images displaying with their homes in the background--it's such a violation of privacy. We should be able to easily disable cameras as easily as muting OR Microsoft's video editor needs a SIMPLE way to block the webcams displaying people across the bottom of the video. One of these days something awful will be caught on video in a TEAMS meeting because of this oversight and it will be all over national TV when it does. This is a HUGE hole that Microsoft needs to fix now. It also takes way too much time for organizations with small budgets and staff to edit these afterward.
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Grot
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please make it happen so it is as easy as mute function
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Vaughn Ngatai
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please make it happen so it is as easy as mute function.
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Lars Dyrner
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We are constantly having people signing in to our webinars with their cameras on. We used to have the same problem with microphones, but has turned them off.
We have underlined it in out one-page quick guide, but despite that, there is always some participants who start with their camera on. It is a waste of time and focus for all others.
It will be a great improvement if we also can turn off the cameras like the microphones.
We have started to use Live-events to avoid this, but that does not work for webinars with interaction
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Naveen
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This will be Very helpful for the training teams Especially when 200 users have turned on the camera and few users they don't know the cameras are turned on too..Especially Nurses and Doctors attending the Meetings from hospitals.The organizer Should have the ability to turn off the camera similar to mute options..
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Lorna
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This is definitely a feature I want it see as it doesn’t matter how many times i tell people to turn their videos off, they ignore me
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Samira
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Very very necessary. There are A LOT of instances where people have their videos unknowingly in embarrassing situations and this feature can allow for the organizer to discreetly turn off the videos without calling attention to them publicly.
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Anonymous
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This is a must have
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Anonymous
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FFS this is long overdue. The inability to turn off unnecessary video means that meetings and other gatherings have distracting video feeds needlessly. And when we record panel discussions where the panelists have given permission to appear in the video, I have to import the damned thing into Premier to hide unwanted other faces that keep appearing. WHY? Teams is twice the work of anything else on the market. Please stop wasting organisers' time and enable this as a core function.
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Anonymous
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Agreed. This needs to be a high priority. More so than some of the file sharing and other features, as this is core to using Teams as a communication platform.
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Jason Hall
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Agree that this should be a high priority addition. When hosting a meeting with large numbers of users, organizers should not have to moderate which individual users are appropriately using webcams and not. Even having to manage this one user at a time would be impractical for large meetings. As a meeting organizer, I do not want to be liable for an attendee "broadcasting" inappropriate content via their webcam, nor do I want other attendee's to be distracted by cameras that have no value in the meeting. This should be a meeting wide setting to disallow "attendee's" from using their webcam, as we can already do for disallowing attendee's from unmuting themselves.
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EricW
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One of those "why is this a thing". +1 to give presenters / organizers the ability to control meetings. As an IT Admin its painful to have to tell my users that they can't in larger meetings keep people from being distracting with video. Its great they can be forced to mute now but why wasn't video taken into consideration at the same time?
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Ben
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Please add!
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cHM
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Definitely important for businesses as well! There are often times where we do not want participants to share their webcams and the organizer needs to be able to disable it for participants.
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Anonymous
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I agree. Would be great to be able to turn off a participants video, if they are unaware their camera is on or if what is being displayed is not appropriate. Same as Mute Participant during an active meeting when hovering over participant, except the option would be Disable Video.
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Anonymous
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Please add this as a feature. Other products have it eg GoToMeeting
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Anonymous
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I concur. Please enable
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Anonymous
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This is something we can do in Zoom and in WebEx. The option to share files and emojis in Teams is great and we would love to make use of it for our classes, but not being able to cut off a video when a participant is distracting others - is a showstopper.
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Anonymous
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This is must.