Being a communication platform, Microsoft Teams offers a series of useful communication features, such as event planning, chats, groups and what we will be discussing today: meetings. Often times when joining a meeting you may have found yourself stuck within the “lobby” space — forced to wait (potentially unnoticed) for another meeting attendant to grant you access to the meeting.
In today’s blog post, I’m going to demonstrate how the meeting organizer can change the meeting settings to allow users to automatically bypass the lobby.
Solution:
- Open Microsoft Teams
- Access your calendar
- Right click your scheduled meeting
- Click edit
- Access meeting options from the context menu
- Configure who can bypass the lobby under the first option
We will be helping you permit meeting attendants to bypass this lobby phase of the meeting. As such we request you refer to our guide below, where you will find step-by-step instructions on what to do, as well as a number of images to provide additional support.
Contents:
- Bypassing the lobby in Microsoft Teams scheduled meetings
- Bypassing the lobby in Microsoft Teams unscheduled meetings
- End note
Bypassing the lobby in Microsoft Teams scheduled meetings
Step 1 – Open Microsoft Teams
Please note the following should be possible on both the desktop and web version of Microsoft Teams.

Step 2 – Access your calendar
From the side panel, find and select Calendar to open it up. There we may access scheduled events, tasks, and meeting- either created by you, or involving you.

Step 3 – Edit your scheduled meeting
Begin by selecting your meeting. This will produce a context menu from which we can select Edit. In doing so, you will be brought to a meeting editing window.

Step 4 – Open the meeting options via the context menu
Within the Details tab, select the context button (…) to reveal a dropdown. From the dropdown, click Meeting options. Doing so will open a page in your default browser with which you will be able to configure additional options for your meeting.

Step 5 – Configure bypass setting
By opening the Who can bypass the lobby dropdown you will be given access to a number of options. These options serve as a means to restrict the lobby to only specific attendants, or relieve everyone of it.

Step 6 – Save your settings
At the bottom of the options list, you will find a button labled Save. Finish by clicking it.

Bypassing the lobby in Microsoft Teams unscheduled meetings
Step 1 – Access your meeting options
Via the context button (…) produce a dropdown menu. From it, select Meeting options.

Step 2 – Configure your bypass settings
By opening the Who can bypass the lobby dropdown you will be given access to a number of options. These options serve as a means to restrict the lobby to only specific attendants, or relieve everyone of it.

Step 3 – Save your settings
By openin At the bottom of the options list, you will find a button labled Save. Finish by clicking it.

End note
Recap
The lobby space in Microsoft Teams meetings exist to allow meeting organisers to ensure an attendant is who they claim to be before being granted access to a meeting. This can additionally be used to allow certain attendants access to the meeting, sometime after the main attendants have been speaking for awhile. However, this feature while useful can sometimes be bothersome and delay attendants. As such, you may wish to bypass the the lobby space via your meetings options.
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