Creating a new Microsoft Teams meeting. It's easy, right?
A few tips you should know when creating a new meeting.
A few tips you should know when creating a new meeting.
My first webinar in Microsoft Teams was terrible. 200+ attendees were joined. I must click the "Admit" button a lot of times. And then somebody started controlling my PowerPoint slides and clicking "next slide". It was a bad experience.
The reason is that I used the same settings for my 200+ attendees webinar that I used for a regular internal meeting for 5 people. It was my mistake.
Today I will show how to change the default settings of a meeting and set up the right configuration.
Ok, let's open a Calendar tab in your Microsoft Teams.
You will see these options:
Do you need to talk right now? Ok, click "Meet now", invite people from your organization or outside, or copy the link and send it to your colleagues:
The "Meet now" button can be found in different places including channels.
In most of the cases, you'll need to schedule a meeting for a certain day and time.
That's a few-clicks-operation:
First, "you need to add at least one attendee to generate a join link". If you ignore this, no link will be generating, and your meeting will be saved as your personal appointment.
Next, if you need to schedule a meeting for people, who are added to a specific channel, you don't need to add them one by one - just select a channel:
You've done!
If you create a webinar or meeting with speakers and attendees/guests, "Meeting options" must be configured. After you created a meeting, click "Edit" and click "Meeting options":
You will be redirected to an external webpage, and you will see something similar to this:
The list of settings can be extended at any time.
My recommendations are:
Yes, it's quite simple if you know about this feature :-)
Now I have total control of my webinars and internal/external meetings.
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