New Lobby Policy for Microsoft Teams Webinar

Originally posted by Microsoft May 8, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Currently in Public webinars, you are unable to distinguish registered users in the lobby. This means that you cannot allow registered users to directly bypass your lobby and enter your webinar. With this new change, we will be offering two new lobby options that will allow you to better control security in your webinar. These new lobby options are:

• A new ‘Allow registered users to bypass’ lobby policy that allows registered users to bypass the lobby in your webinar.
• A new ‘Reject users who cannot bypass the lobby’ that rejects users who cannot bypass the lobby.

Currently in Public webinars, you are unable to distinguish registered users in the lobby. This means that you cannot allow registered users to directly bypass your lobby and enter your webinar. With this new change, we will be offering two new lobby options that will allow you to better control security in your webinar. These new lobby options are:

• A new ‘Allow registered users to bypass’ lobby policy that allows registered users to bypass the lobby in your webinar.
• A new ‘Reject users who cannot bypass the lobby’ that rejects users who cannot bypass the lobby.

Both options are only available for Webinars. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 125881

When this will happen:

We will begin rolling out in mid-May and expect to complete rollout by early June.

How this will affect your organization:

With the two new lobby options, you can better control the security of your webinar.

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What you need to do to prepare:

While we recommend educating users in your organization about this new change, there is nothing you must do to receive this new update. These two new options will be available in the meeting options of your webinar and turned OFF by default. You may enable them to better manage your webinar at your discretion.

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