OnlineMeeting Graph API can start meeting outside schedule and after deleted

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OnlineMeeting Graph API can start meeting outside schedule and after deleted

Ryan Coyle 21

Hi All,

I've created a python script to get an access token etc and create an onlineMeeting.

I give it the start and end date etc. This doesn't seem to stop us from being able to use the link outside the start and end date.

I figured this wasn't too big of an issue as there is the delete method which I was able to use successfully, I deleted the meeting ID got the successful status but I was still able to click the link to get into the meeting.

Is there something I'm doing wrong here or am I missing somthing? Once you create an onlineMeeting it seems that the link is always going to be usable unless I am doing something wrong.

Thanks for any feedback.
Ryan

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JimmyYang-MSFT 35,911 Microsoft Vendor

Hi @Ryan Coyle

This is by design. A meeting URL will never stop working. The expiry only relates to any PSTN dial-in numbers, CVI coordinates, and/or underlying meeting policies and settings.

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Ryan Coyle 21 Reputation points

2021-07-14T17:08:19.877+00:00

Hi @JimmyYang-MSFT

Thanks for the update!

Maybe you could point us in the right direction to resolving our concerns.

We would like anonymous users to be able to join the meeting before the host.

We are concerned that since the URL will never expire once someone gets the URL they will be able to send that URL to anyone and be able to use our tenancy to run meetings.

Is there anything you could suggest to get around this?

Do you know that the delete method does? I guess it just delete's the meeting ID somewhere on O365 but is that all it does? i.e. would we need to delete these ID's after a time for any reason?

Best Regards
Ryan
JimmyYang-MSFT 35,911 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-07-16T08:05:43.3+00:00

Hi @Ryan Coyle

We are concerned that since the URL will never expire once someone gets the URL they will be able to send that URL to anyone and be able to use our tenancy to run meetings.

Maybe you could turn off this meeting settings as Teams admin like the following picture but in this way it will not meet your first requirement.

At present, there is no effective way to achieve your goal. Even you delete the conference ID, it will not impact the meeting link itself.
Ryan Coyle 21 Reputation points

2021-07-16T13:31:03.687+00:00

Thanks @JimmyYang-MSFT

We have tried this. A possible work around we are investigating for our particular use case is to add certain partners as Guest's to our tenancy which will allow us to unselect this and have the Guest's start the meeting.

Just adding this incase anyone else could find this useful.

Best Regards
Ryan
Philip Stratford 1 Reputation point

2022-10-12T14:17:26.653+00:00

I understand that the meeting end time is not intended to cause the join URL to expire, but is there no way to do so? We have a real problem whereby we're programatically generating Teams meetings when a client books an appointment in our in-house booking system and sending the link to the client, but then finding that clients are re-using the links days or even weeks or months after the original meeting when they just want to get in touch with a member of our staff. This is completely impractical. We can't have clients able to just randomly start meetings with our staff whenever they choose.

OnlineMeeting Graph API can start meeting outside schedule and after deleted

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