Prevent Participants From Starting Teams Meetings

Teams meeting recordings are stored in the OneDrive of the person that starts the meeting, not the organizer. To avoid this, organizers will need to disable the participants from starting the meeting. 

When an organizer does not want a meeting started by participants, the only way Microsoft has provided support for that is to disable participants from bypassing the lobby. 

Scheduling the meeting in Outlook:
NOTE: Outlook for Mac may require you to send the invitations before the meeting options are available. 

1. Start a new meeting request
2. Click the "Teams Meeting" icon
3. In the body of the meeting request, there will be a Meeting Options link
   1. Follow the link to change the options (Windows ctrl+click)
4. In the option, change the setting for "Who can bypass the lobby?" to "Only me"
5. Save the options

Scheduling in Microsoft Teams:
When scheduling a meeting in Teams the meeting options is not available until AFTER the meeting is saved. Once the meeting is saved:

1. In the body of the meeting request, there will be a Meeting Options link
   1. Follow the link to change the options (Windows ctrl+click)
2. In the option, change the setting for "Who can bypass the lobby?" to "Only me"
3. Save the options