Only people with access to this org can join its meetings when joining with an account that is not work or school

Question

We have people that we send Teams meeting join requests that are outside of the company. If they join the meeting with their work or school domain account, it works fine. If they join with their gmail, hotmail, or such, it fails saying Only people with access to the org can join its meetings.

Allow anonymous people to join the meeting is enabled.

I tested it with my hotmail.com and school account. It worked fine with my school account, though I had to let myself into the meeting from the lobby. When I switched to using my hotmail account, it gave the above error.

We would like to be able to use Teams to interview and doing welcome to the company for new remote employees before they get their hardware, but currently unable to even though from what I have seen from multiple documents it should work with the allow anonymous guests enabled, so having to use Zoom.

Could there be something I am missing that is not allowing people that don't have work or school accounts to join meetings?

Answer 1

There is two area's that has to be enabled to allow anonymous guests. One is under Participants and Guests, and there is also another one under Meetings Settings, which I was sure was on before, but it wasn't.

Thanks @Jon Mercer for the share!

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[Only people with access to this org can join its meetings when joining with an account that is not work or school]

Issue Symptom:
We have people that we send Teams meeting join requests that are outside of the company. If they join the meeting with their work or school domain account, it works fine. If they join with their gmail, hotmail, or such, it fails saying "Only people with access to the org can join its meetings". "Allow anonymous people to join the meeting" is enabled in Meeting policy.

Solution:
There is two area's that has to be enabled to allow anonymous guests. One is under Participants and Guests, and there is also another one under Meetings Settings.

• Meeting policies:
  
• Meeting settings:
  

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Answer 2

The answers and MS recommendation confused me,

then you will get this