Teams - Meet - Managing participants

Description:

Learn how to manage participants in a meeting.  Add, remove, lobby, audo/video, and more.

Instructions:

To request someone to join a meeting you’re in
  1. Select People People or Show Participants button in your meeting controls.
  2. Search for the participant you want to add.
  3. In the search results, hover over their name and select More options more-options-ellipsis .
  4. Select Request to join to notify them to join immediately or select Consult and merge to call them first before merging them into your meeting. 
Remove participants
  1. Select People People or Show Participants button in your meeting controls.
  2. Right click on the name
  3. Select Remove from meeting
Mute an attendee

To mute a specific attendee, without turning off mics:

  1. Select People People or Show Participants button .
  2. In the Participants pane, hover over the person you want to mute.
  3. Select More options Microsoft Teams more options icon > Mute participant Muted microphone button .

To mute all participants without disabling their mics, select Mute all

Articles on other items
  1. Using the lobby in Microsoft Teams meetings | Microsoft Support
  2. Manage attendee audio and video permissions in Microsoft Teams meetings | Microsoft Support
  3. Lock a meeting in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Support

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