Introduction

Teams makes it easy for meeting and webinar organizers to customize their event settings. These settings can determine how event attendees are able to engage with content throughout the meeting or webinar. 

Please note that this article does not discuss lobby and presenter settings. You can find more information about these settings via these knowledge base articles:

• Teams Meetings: Enable a lobby
• Teams Meetings: Change presenter settings/meeting roles

Change meeting options before the meeting 

1. Open the meeting in your Outlook calendar to find the meeting and the Teams event invitation. 
2. Scroll down to the section of the meeting information that gives the Teams meeting details and select Meeting options.
   

    
3. A new window will launch with your Meeting options menu.
   
   
   
   

Change meeting options during the meeting

1. In the Teams meeting toolbar, click on More actions (three dots icon). In the drop-down, select Meeting options to open the Meeting options side panel.
   
   

    
2. In this panel, you can configure participant settings, meeting roles and lobby settings.
   
   
   
   
3. Click Save to apply the settings. 

Setting your meeting options

Teams has several meeting options that can determine the level of interactivity of your meeting guests. When you open your meeting options menu, you will see the following choices. 

Note: For lobby and presenter settings, please see the article links at the top of this document.

• Allow mic for attendees?: This option is on by default. Toggle this option off if you do not want attendees to be able to turn on their microphones.*
• Allow camera for attendees?: This option is on by default. Toggle this option off if you do not want attendees to be able to turn on their video.*
• Record automatically: This option is off by default. Toggle this option on if you want the meeting to be recorded automatically.
• Allow meeting chat: This option is on by default. Toggle this option off if you want to disable the meeting chat.
• Allow reactions: This option is on by default. Toggle this option off if you want to disable attendees' use of reactions.
• Enable Q&A: By enabling Question and Answer to any Teams Webinars or Meetings, Meeting Organizers will be able to create either moderated or unmoderated Q&A experience.

When you have selected your options, click Save to apply your changes.

*Designate meeting/webinar presenter roles ahead of time to ensure all presenters have an in-meeting mic and camera access.