Explain Teams Meeting Policies

Microsoft Teams Meeting Policies are a set of rules and settings that define the features and functionalities available to users during a meeting in Teams. Meeting policies allow administrators to manage and control the meeting experience for users, enabling them to customize policies based on user roles, departments, or regions.

There are several types of meeting policies available in Teams, including:

  1. Global meeting policies: These policies apply to all users in the organization and define the default settings for all meetings.
  2. Custom meeting policies: These policies allow administrators to create and apply policies for specific user groups, such as departments or regions.
  3. Meeting policy settings: These settings include audio, video, and sharing capabilities, such as who can present content, who can share screens, and who can unmute themselves during a meeting.
  4. Meeting policy enforcement: This setting allows administrators to enforce policies on user accounts and prevent them from changing their meeting settings.
  5. Meeting policy assignment: This setting allows administrators to assign policies to individual users or groups of users.

Usage examples of Teams Meeting Policies include:

  1. Enabling or disabling the ability for meeting attendees to turn on their camera during a meeting.
  2. Restricting the ability to share content during a meeting to only specific individuals.
  3. Allowing or disallowing attendees to join a meeting before the host.
  4. Controlling the ability for attendees to record a meeting.
  5. Restricting the ability for external users to join a meeting.

Overall, Teams Meeting Policies provide a granular way to manage and control the meeting experience for users in Microsoft Teams.

Author: tonyhughes