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Join Teams meeting in Browser

Anonymous
2021-01-12T11:47:41+00:00

Hi,

I'm trying to log into a Teams meeting via my browser (Chrome) - I am not a member of the Team but have been sent the link for the meeting.

It opens up OK and tries to open teams. 

When I close this and click on 'continue in this browser' I am taken to a page to log in with my Microsoft account.

Do you have to have a Microsoft account to join a Teams meeting? If not, how can I bypass it asking me?

Cheers,

Chris

ps I assume the meeting is via Teams for business but am not certain.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-13T02:54:44+00:00

    Sorry for the confusion. Upon double0cheking this issue, if you want to join a Team meeting without having an account then you need to select the "open your team app" option then you will be redirected to the pre-meeting screen.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-13T10:48:15+00:00

    You don't have to have an MS account however, you definitely need the MS Team desktop app in order to be able to join a meeting without an account.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-13T10:45:55+00:00

    Hi Daniel,

    thankyou again for your time. 

    (A little background - colleagues and I are delivering distance-learning activities here in Scotland. We have been using Zoom (not that I'm a huge fan) but some schools in Scotland have banned the use of Zoom - hence Teams. Most of the audience will have the Teams app so no problem but I've been trying to troubleshoot for any that don't.)

    Your suggestion implies to me that I would need either a MS account or the Teams app on my device. Is that correct?

    It's unlikely to be a problem but Microsoft aren't really clear about this.

    Thanks again,

    Chris

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-12T23:12:25+00:00

    Hi Daniel,

    thanks for taking the time to help.

    I was already aware of the process but it says - in the first link you gave - 

    "After that, you will be redirected to the pre-meeting screen as shown on the second screenshot below.  On the pre-meeting screen, you can enter your name as a guest."

    But . . . Instead of being redirected to the pre-meeting screen as described, I am directed to an O365 login screen - hence my question.

    The thing is that if I sign in with a microsoft account that is not part of my organisation, I can successfully manage to join the meeting as a guest - so I assume that guest access is turned on 9is this correct do you think?). I can do anything I need, share screen etc.

    However, if i don't log in to an O365 account, I can see no way of joining the meeting. (I've tried with edge as well as Chrome and it makes no difference.

    Any further ideas?

    Many thanks.

    Chris

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-12T12:19:36+00:00

    Hi

    My name is Daniel. I am an Independent Advisor.

    Actually, you can join as a guest without creating an MS account or even without installing the MS Team desktop app as explained in the following article: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/for...

    However, if you need them to join a Team then you need to add the guest to a Team first. You don't have to add them to a team if you know you only want to have a meeting call with him. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-...

    Regardless of whether you want to add the guest to the Team or only want to have a meeting call, either way, you need to turn on guest access from the admin center. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams...

    Kind Regards

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