M365 Changelog: (Updated) Join meetings anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds)

MC285905 – Updated May 13, 2022: Microsoft is removing this message as it is a duplicate of MC335634. Please refer to MC335634 moving forward. Thank you for your patience.

Today, if you want to join a meeting hosted in a different cloud to one of your tenant, you are directed to use the Teams web experience. Microsoft is improving the experience to allow users to join meetings across clouds from their desktop app anonymously.

Key points

• Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86311
• Timing: Refer to MC335634
• Roll-out: tenant level
• Action: review and assess

How this will affect your organization:

Once this rolls out, users will be able to join meetings in other clouds anonymously from their Teams desktop app (across clouds).

This change honors the existing setting for Anonymous users can join a meeting.

What you need to do to prepare:

Review your existing settings for Anonymous users can join a meeting to ensure the correct experience is enabled for your organization. Additionally, consider updating your training and documentation as appropriate.