TEAMS - mute by default when entering a meeting

Anonymous
2020-09-22T18:46:23+00:00

Can you mute by default whenever you enter a TEAMS meeting? I know this option is available in WebEx, but can't seem to find it in the settings in TEAMS.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-14T16:43:43+00:00

    Just to add my voice here, this feature is important to me as well, and would have saved me from annoying my teammates on several occasions. Having the option to change a single meeting's setting is not sufficient.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-06T20:17:19+00:00

    I would like to go into Teams settings for my user account, and set a preference that I always join a call on audio and video mute. No matter what, no matter how many people are already on the call.

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-28T19:42:25+00:00

    Actually, it does depend on how many people are on a bridge call when you join that decides on muting or not. I think 4 is the limit. It tells you in a popup when you are auto muted.Direct calls are not auto muted. There is not an option to auto mute by default which I think was the reason for this post.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-28T18:47:18+00:00

    Heather,

    Just to clarify, this is not intended behavior...its a bug or issue with Teams. The end user is auto-muted by Teams when joining any call regardless of group size or 1 on 1 calls.

    Microsoft Admins, can you look into this issue and comment on this thread?

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-04-28T18:39:11+00:00

    Is this still really not a thing in Microsoft Teams? I am in IT; our company uses about 6+ different platforms for video conferencing and every single one of them has the option to "Mute all participants at entry" except Teams. This doesn't make any sense. And for that reason (and a few others, like being a complete CPU hog) our 350+ employees refuse to use Teams for meetings. Hence the half a dozen other options we support. 

    It would be really fantastic if Microsoft could add this feature.

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