Can meeting attendees join teams and channels without downloading the Teams app?

Question

I am hosting a public meeting on Wednesday, and I understand that some participants may join the teams meeting by phone or by using their browser. Can I invite these participants to a team, and have them join a channel for a breakout room discussion, without having them download the Teams app?

Thanks!
Sophie

Answer 1

They need to have an account for that, either a regular user account in your tenant or Guest user that's invited. As for the app, they dont need to have it installed and can use the browser client if needed.

Answer 2

@Sophie Turnbull-Appell ,

As Michev said, you can use Teams web client(https://teams.microsoft.com).

Teams supports many Internet browsers. You can learn more in this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients#web-client.

About how to add guests to a team in Teams, refer to this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-guests-to-a-team-in-teams-fccb4fa6-f864-4508-bdde-256e7384a14f.

Please note that guests must have a Microsoft 365 work or school account. If the guest doesn’t yet have a Microsoft account associated with their email address, they will be directed to create one for free.

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Answer 3

The only feature I've seen missing on the web client is the ability to share screen.