In large meetings (250 people) people hit "mute all" and consistently silence the speaker, disrupting the meeting.
In large meetings (250 people) people hit "mute all" and consistently silence the speaker, disrupting the meeting.
Please figure out a solution to prevent such disruptions in large meetings.

11 comments
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Anonymous commented
Meeting Options should allow you to set attendees as attendees blocking the ability for them to mute all, but Meeting Options appears broken right now because you (I) get "Something went wrong." any time I try to save the options.
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Martijn van der Ven commented
I found the creation of a live event is not as intuitive as you'd think. It's quite easy to accidentally distribute the wrong link to everyone. Especially if the event has already been created, obtaining the correct 'attendee' link for distribution is perhaps a little odd.
Perhaps this situation is the underlying problem of this bug report ?
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Ice commented
Change everyone to attendees and that should help
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Tom Bollens commented
Perhaps use the showlight for the active speaker and make it so that the mute all function doesn't apply to the person in the showlight.
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Alan D commented
Use Live Events - anyone not a presenter can't mute anyone else or un-mute themselves, by default.
Alternatively, make sure only presenters are designated as such in the meeting options in a Teams meeting
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/roles-in-a-teams-meeting-c16fa7d0-1666-4dde-8686-0a0bfe16e019 -
Bong commented
Is it possible to have option to "mute all attendees" in addition to "mute all"? Also, any settings that can disable attendees from unmuting themselves?
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Anonymous commented
You can solve this by designating presenters and attendees prior to the meeting, or use the "Make everyone an attendee" function during the meeting.
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Deb commented
I want all the things Eyad commented on. The meeting options mentioned by Karan are very limited.
Another problem I see is that when we use the Mute All feature, folks on the phone can't unmute themselves easily and end up having to hang up and call back -
Karan commented
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Eyad commented
Ideally meeting organizer can decide which permissions meeting attendees have access to. Where they can enable/disable features as needed. So the meeting organizer can set the meeting to be all attendees start as muted (and unable to unmute) where the option to unmute can be re-enabled during the QA session or parts of the meeting.
Additionally meeting organizer (and maybe can assign meeting admins?) can unmute individual attendees (for example to unmute a presenter that's not the organizer).
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Sharon Aldrich commented
+1