Hapoens you have given someone Scheduling Privilegewhich allows them to schedule meetings on your behalf, then when that person joins a meeting before you, the meeting will begin and they will be made the host.
 
 

What happens if you try to join a zoom meeting early. What is ‘Join before host’ when using Zoom?

They get the prompt, “when the meeting starts, we’ll let people know you’re waiting in the lobby. Once they do this it alerts the Provider they are in the lobby. There seems to be a timeout but what is the length.

If anyone else has run into this, please share what you have done. ChristianBergstrom I agree with you and rejoining is easier if it was me. It would be nice if Microsoft would let the user know it timed out or have a count down. ChristianBergstrom I did serval tests, and the timeout for the lobby is 30 minutes.

In the Teams client you will get notified like this: Sorry, no one responded to your request to join. Please try again. And you have to option to click on rejoin or dismiss.

Markus Schnoeller Hello, thanks for that! I got the 15 minutes from a MS support page. Perhaps something has changed and this not being updated wouldn’t be the first time. If that happens, you can try joining again. Products 68 Special Topics 41 Video Hub Most Active Hubs Microsoft Teams. Security, Compliance and Identity. Microsoft Edge Insider.

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Occasional Contributor. Thank you, Karisa. It sure sounds like that is your issue. It s not that easy explaining this to our pt’s or clients. Markus Schnoeller.

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