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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.
Additional sign-in or account-related issues within Microsoft Teams for business
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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.
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.
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
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
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