We are excited to introduce a new feature in Microsoft Teams that helps improve the security and reliability of your meetings by implementing email verification for external participants. Meeting organizers can now require external participants to verify their email addresses with a code before joining the meeting. This will ensure that participants who have verified their emails will appear in the meeting with an ‘Email verified’ label, providing organizers with a more trustworthy way to manage external participants. This enhancement gives organizers more confidence in knowing who is joining their meetings.
This feature is intended for organizations who invite external participants to join Teams meetings who may not have a Microsoft account. Currently, Teams allows users to join meetings as ‘unverified’ participants. If your organization wants to restrict unverified participants from joining meetings, this new capability allows participants to join by verifying their email without needing a Teams account. This gives organizers the ability to verify all participants and track their attendance after verifying their email addresses.
To enable this feature, meeting organizers will need a Teams Premium license. Admins managing tenant policies will have a new meeting policy for allowing ‘Anonymous users to join Teams meetings after verifying by email code.’ They can choose to enable this policy alongside the existing one that allows ‘anonymous users to join the meeting unverified.’ Meeting organizers can
