Although default participant settings are determined by the university, the meeting organizer may want to change them for a specific meeting. The organizer can make these changes on the Meeting options web page. You can access these options either before or during a meeting
Note: Security and compliance prevent some settings from being overridden.
Go to your Teams calendar and select the meeting.
Scroll down and select Meeting options.
Select Show participants and then Meeting options.
As the meeting organizer, you get to decide who gets into your meetings directly, and who should wait for someone to let them in.
If you choose to have people wait, you (and anyone else allowed to admit people) will see a list of people in the lobby. From there you can choose whether to admit or deny them.
Who can bypass the lobby?
What happens
Recommended when...
Only you
As the meeting organizer, only you can get into your meeting directly. Everyone else will wait in the lobby.
You want everyone else to wait in the lobby until you're ready to admit them.
People I invite*
Anyone who receives the invitation, including those to whom it's forwarded, will join the meeting directly. This doesn't include distribution lists—people must be invited individually. If you don't want people to forward the invite to others, turn off Allow Forwarding in the invitation.
You want a specific, limited group of people to join the meeting directly, and everyone else to wait in the lobby.
People in my organization
Only people within your org can get into your meeting directly. Everyone else will wait in the lobby.
You want all guests and external people to wait in the lobby so you can approve them one by one.
People in my organization and guests
People in your org and guests (including those who have different email domains than yours) can get into your meetings directly.
You want all external people (anyone outside your org, except guests) to wait in the lobby so you can approve them one by one.
People in my organization and trusted organizations, and guests
People in your Teams org, external participants from trusted organizations, and guests can get into your meetings directly.
You want some external people to wait in the lobby so you can approve them one by one.
Everyone
Anyone who has access to the meeting link gets into the meeting directly, including people who call in.
You don’t want anyone to wait in the lobby. You want everyone to be able to join your meetings without specific approval.
* Unavailable in channel meetings
You'll see a toggle next to Always let callers bypass the lobby. When this setting is enabled, people calling in by phone will join your meeting without having to wait for someone to admit them.
Select the toggle to turn it on or off.
You may want to receive an alert when someone calling in by phone joins or leaves your meeting. (Your admin might have enabled these alerts by default.)
To change this setting, select the toggle next to Announce when callers join or leave?
See Roles in a Teams meeting for details about selecting presenters and changing someone's role before and during a meeting.
Note: Meeting rooms are part of your org, so they'll join meetings the same way any other account in your org does.
Selecting this option will result in a highly controlled meeting. Attendees will only be able to view content that presenters are sharing and people who are spotlighted by the organizer.
To avoid distractions in large meetings, you may want to decide when attendees can unmute and share their video. For details, see Manage attendee audio and video permissions.
To prevent attendees from unmuting, turn off the toggle next to Allow mic for attendees?.
To prevent attendees from sharing video, turn off the toggle next to Allow camera for attendees?.
If you turn on this option, recording will begin as soon as the meeting starts. For more info, see Record a meeting in Teams.
In general, people who are on the meeting invite can participate in a meeting chat before, during, and after the meeting.
If you select Disabled for this option, there will be no meeting chat at any time.
If you select In-meeting only, meeting chat will be unavailable before and after the meeting.
You can choose whether or not people are able to use live reactions in a meeting. If you choose not to allow it, they will still be able to raise their hand. For more info, see Express yourself in Teams meetings with live reactions.
To lock a meeting from a mobile device: click Schedule a meeting > Join > ... (in the meeting toolbar) > Lock meeting.