Bypass the lobby and start the meeting

Question

I've created an event on a calendar using Calendar API which in turn in the response, it will give me the link to a Microsoft Team meeting link. My problem right now is none of the attendees can start the meeting. Is there's a way programatically either when I'm creating the event or updating the online meeting, to enable the attendees to bypass the lobby and start the meeting.

Answer 1

Hello Dinesh Kumar Yadav,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Support!

Yes, if you are creating online meeting, you can configure the meeting settings programmatically to allow attendees to bypass the lobby and start the meeting. When creating or updating the online meeting using the Microsoft Graph API, you can set the lobbyBypassSettings to allow everyone to bypass the lobby.

Here's an example of how you can do this:

{
  "startDateTime": "2024-10-10T15:00:00Z",
  "endDateTime": "2024-10-10T16:00:00Z",
  "subject": "Team Meeting",
  "isEntryExitAnnounced": false,
  "lobbyBypassSettings": {
    "scope": "everyone"
  }
}

In this example, the lobbyBypassSettings with "scope": "everyone" ensures that all participants can bypass the lobby and join the meeting directly. Please refer to documentation.

Hope this helps.

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