Recurring Meetings in Microsoft Teams:
In Microsoft Team sidebar.
Navigate to the Teams channel or chat where you want to hold the recurring meeting.
Click on the “Calendar” tab on the left-hand side.
Click on the “+ New Meeting” button to create a new meeting.
Enter the meeting title, date, start time, and duration as you would for a regular meeting.
Toggle the Recurrence Option to set up the frequency of the meeting.
Then Save the meeting, and it will be added to your and the attendees’ calendars.
Add external guests to Microsoft Teams meetings:
In a team, select More options > Add member.
Enter the guest’s email address. You can add as many guests as needed. If your search results don’t find any people to invite/add, this function could be disabled or you might not have admin permissions for the channel.
After selecting “Add,” guests will receive an email invitation that they need to accept in order to join the meeting. In Microsoft Teams, guests will be labelled as “Guests.
* You must be the Owner of the Teams Channel or have permissions to Add/Invite Guests to the meeting/channel.
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Lobby Restrictions:
In Teams meetings, the meeting lobby keeps participants from joining until they’re admitted by an organizer, co-organizer, or presenter.
Choose who bypasses the lobby, Only organizers and co-organizers: Everyone else waits in the lobby.
People who were invited: Those invited directly join, while others wait.
People in your org: External guests wait in the lobby.
Everyone: All participants join directly, including those calling in
Change lobby settings
You can change lobby settings before, during, or after a meeting (in the case of a meeting series). The changes will only apply to the meeting you change them in unless the meeting is part of a series. Then, changes will be applied to all future meetings in that series. To change default lobby settings, contact your IT admin.
Before a meeting, Select a meeting in your Teams Calendar.
In Details, select Options Settings button > More options, If the meeting is part of a series, select View series to make changes to the entire series.
Select the Security Privacy settings button.
In the Who can bypass the lobby? dropdown menu, choose who can bypass the lobby.
Turn the People dialling in can bypass the lobby toggle on or off.
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