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Allow meeting and webinar organizers to hide the names of attendees

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  • Applies to:
    Microsoft Teams

APPLIES TO: ✔️Meetings ✔️Webinars ✖️Town halls

Information icon. Some features described in this article require Teams Premium.

Overview

With a Teams Premium license, you, as an admin can decide if meeting and webinar organizers can hide the names and photos of attendees from other attendees in the stage, roster, and chat.

To learn more about how your organizers can hide attendee names, see Hide attendee names in Teams meetings and webinars.

Allow meeting and webinar organizers to hide the names of attendees through PowerShell

Through PowerShell, you can manage whether meeting and webinar organizers with a Premium license can hide the names of attendees. The -AttendeeIdentityMasking parameter in the CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlet controls whether your users can hide attendee names in their meetings and webinars. The following table shows the behaviors of the settings for the -AttendeeIdentityMasking parameter:

Setting value Behavior
Enabled For organizers with this policy, attendee names are always hidden in their meetings and webinars.
DisabledUserOverride This is the default value. Attendee names are visible in meetings and webinars that organizers with this policy create. However, these organizers can choose to hide attendee names in their meetings and webinars through their meeting options.
Disabled For organizers with this policy, attendee names are always shown in their meetings and webinars.

To enable -AttendeeIdentityMasking, so attendee names are always hidden in meetings and webinars that organizers with this policy create, run the following script:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AttendeeIdentityMasking Enabled

To disable -AttendeeIdentityMasking so attendee names are always shown in meetings and webinars organizers with this policy create, run the following script:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AttendeeIdentityMasking Disabled