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
    2020-09-22T19:35:02+00:00

    Hi! This is Nicolle an Independent advisor.

    Usually, before you join a meeting in teams there should be a window that will appear on your screen for an option if you are mute or unmute before you click the "join" button.

    You can find also find useful answers in regards to that:

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsof...

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-21T12:55:22+00:00

    Still this is not the same as default setting -> if there are many participants it defaults you to mute, but in case there are just few participants it by default sets to "not muted". Which may be inconvinient for some users. I would prefer to always be muted when joining. There is no such option at the moment....

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-22T07:16:49+00:00

    +1 for this. I hate finding out after "talking to myself" for 5 minutes that I have infact been talking to the room...

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-27T07:31:39+00:00

    Yes, I totally agree. Every week I've got DM during call that I'm not muted and people hear my background noise. Especially I'm auto muted when there are more meeting participants. I don't see any reason why people wouldn't be auto-muted every time they join any meeting.

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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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