Teams Meetings: Settings Defaults

Summary

Meeting options are a group of settings that enable, limit, or turn off certain capabilities during a meeting. Organizers can change meeting options to affect how participants engage and interact during a meeting. This article covers the default Teams Meetings settings. 

 

Content

Teams Meetings Defaults 

Title of Setting 

Default 

Who can bypass the lobby?  

People in my org and guests 

People dialing in can bypass the lobby 

Off 

Announce when people dialing in join or leave  

Off 

Who can present 

Everyone 

Allow mic for attendees 

On 

Allow cameras for attendees 

On  

Record Automatically 

Off 

Meeting chat 

On  

Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat 

Off 

Q&A  

Off 

Allow reactions 

On  

End-to-end encryption 

Off 

Apply a watermark to everyone’s video feed 

Off 

Allow attendance report 

On  

 

Further Readings 

Microsoft Support - Meeting options in Microsoft Teams 

 

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