@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey
No B&M last minute purchase for home working.... Was trying to be cheap

In that case, try an office supply store that does used equipment, like Denver has Denver Desk and Office Liquidators.

Good luck amid the quarantine.

@Carnival-Boy said in Microsoft Teams:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Teams:

Thanks for this post - my early googles didn't land me on anything, but this morning got lucky.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

A good example of what's wrong with Teams. It's so complicated that even someone like you can't always figure it out. Bob the Sales Manager has no chance.

I've never understood how Microsoft manage to make products so convoluted. Then someone like Zoom comes along and shows how simple things can be.

No disagreement here - no reason for these settings to be buried - I'm sure their argument is - there's likely no one that will use that option, so why clutter the initial interface.

At least the admin can set the default to auto join the meeting.

@david-wiese said in Microsoft Teams:

False: As long as someone has the auto generated link (generated from within teams calendar or the via the outlook plugin) anyone can start the meeting. I have been using Teams for 2 years now and have never had to have the person that created the meeting actually attend.

Thanks for this post - my early googles didn't land me on anything, but this morning got lucky.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

This can be set globally as mentioned in the link, but it can also be set by the host, sadly, not during initial meeting creation, but right afterwords.

From teams:
Open the calendar > open the meeting > click on Meeting Options

This will open a webpage and show this.

Teams has no more option when making a meeting than Outlook Calendar

@david-wiese I'd appreciate it if you could send a meeting to my co-worker and I, and see if we can join without you. This option might be a setting change in your companies O365 settings.

When making a meeting from Outlook's calendar, this seems like the only option - i.e. enable a Teams based meeting.

@david-wiese said in Microsoft Teams:

@Dashrender

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Teams:

Teams requires the meeting owner to attend to make make the meeting happen (at least we haven't found a way around this yet). Zoom does not have this requirement.
Said another way - in a Zoom meeting, you have the option "Enable join before host" This allows the meeting to happen with or without the person who scheduled it.

This was a problem for us, as we want schedulers to schedule meetings for their bosses (providers) and the schedule not be involved in the meeting at all. Luckily we found that if you have calendar delegation rights to the person who will be in the meeting, though Outlook, you can schedule a Teams meeting on their behalf.

False: As long as someone has the auto generated link (generated from within teams calendar or the via the outlook plugin) anyone can start the meeting. I have been using Teams for 2 years now and have never had to have the person that created the meeting actually attend.

Example: A meeting request is sent by me. My co-worker clicks Join Meeting from outlook, teams, or the meeting reminder (if one is setup) the meeting is started. All attendees will get a pop-up (assuming the teams client is running) saying XYZ has started the meeting, do you want to join?

When a guest joins a meeting I (paying customer) made and invited a non paying customer too, this is what I see when the non paying customer logs in.

I made sure two people were in the meeting just now, and they can't start the meeting without the host. Perhaps I'm missing a checkbox - going back to check that now.

This is where I see failure still.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Weekend sales!

As in you are making, or buying?

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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Teams allows one person to have multiple overlapping meetings, even better, those meetings can happen at the same time. It's a little convoluted to get going because the meeting owner has to start each meeting. Here is how it can be done.

Meeting 1 - host joins meeting, others join meeting, host leaves
Meeting 2 - host joins meeting, others join, host leaves

Now the host is free to join either meeting at will. Additionally, more people can come and go from the meeting as desired.

Zoom does not allow this at all. A host can schedule overlapping meetings, but a host is only allowed one meeting to happen at a time. Additionally, a guest to a meeting can minorly hold hostage the host's ability to start another meeting by not leaving the meeting. I say minorly because the host can log into their meeting and kick that guest out of the meeting, then go back and try again to start their next meeting.