Microsoft Teams Will Let You Prevent People From Unmuting Themselves

If you chair lots of online meetings with Microsoft Teams, you've likely been crying out for more ways to manage the audio permissions of your attendees.

Thanks to an upcoming update to the enterprise conferencing software, you'll be able to stop people unmuting themselves.

Microsoft Teams Improves Attendee Audio Permissions

As tracked on the Office 365 Roadmap, an upcoming update to Microsoft Teams will improve how meeting organizers can manage attendee audio permissions.

Currently, as a meeting host on Teams, you can mute everyone in the call. If someone wishes to unmute, they must request permission from you. It's serviceable, but inconvenient in a meeting when there are many people speaking in turn.

That's why Microsoft is developing a feature so that attendees can manually unmute themselves, without having to request to speak.

By the same token, sometimes you don't want people to unmute themselves. These in-development changes will allow you to "prevent individual attendees from unmuting instead of all attendees at once".

This means that you have the power to silence that particularly talkative colleague who insists on unmuting themselves constantly.

According to the Office 365 Roadmap, this feature is in active development and is due for release at some point in April 2021.

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