Prevent attendees inviting users within an in progress meeting
Currently, attendees are able to use the participants pane in an ongoing meeting to invite users to the meeting. In an education setting, this means disruptive/cheeky students are able to abuse the invite option to call anybody within the school.. There's absolutely no reason in an educational setting for students to be able to invite anybody they like to a live lesson (meeting) - we make them attendees for a reason!

There are two methods to block students from inviting users to an ongoing meeting: 1) Disable Call Me and 2) Ensure all students are attendees.
Admins: This feature is controlled at the organizer level. To prevent students from using this feature in class meetings, turn this Audio Conferencing setting off for educators organizing class meetings: Dial-out from meetings: Off
Educators: Set Who can present to Only me to ensure that your students and other participants join as meeting attendees.
For more information, please visit: https://support.microsoft.com/office/keeping-students-safe-while-using-teams-for-distance-learning-f00fa399-0473-4d31-ab72-644c137e11c8.
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Ritesh Dhanak commented
Absolutely necessary feature for schools! This is required! We need this ASAP
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Anonymous commented
100% agree this is needed ASAP
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Becky Gentile commented
When you have a school psychologist or other support meeting with a student, having the student with the capabilities to invite others into the meeting creates a huge HIPPA issue for the school district.
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Bodh Raj commented
Need to disable attendees inviting others . Much needed requirement.
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Hilary Smith commented
Yes! We really do need this to make meetings on Teams continue as a viable option.
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Anonymous commented
Really important for schools to prevent attendees inviting other students- some students are making others too uncomfortable to learn
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Anonymous commented
I agree. This kind of feature is suitable for companies and not for educational institutions.
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Harish Buhari commented
This is a bug in the system. Zoom is having better control for this. Microsoft is still outdated.
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Isak Westerlund commented
Agreed.
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Sara Arif commented
Agreed
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Anonymous commented
Absolutely needed
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Anonymous commented
The fact that I cannot seem to hold a private meeting is kind of dumb. It is essential that we can hold a meeting wit only the people I invite is just daft.
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Humera Siddiqui commented
Yes, agreed!
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Doha kotb commented
Yes please we really need it for the safeguarding and wellbeing for teachers and students
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Ritesh Dhanak commented
Really need this feature for teachers
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Anonymous commented
Yes please
It is most essential for safeguarding and wellbeing of both students and teachers -
Williams commented
If not blocked Major student behaviour issues
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Anonymous commented
please for schools
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Frank Breman commented
heel graag toevoegen
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Ricardo Duarte commented
Whyyyyyy still not ready please!