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Browse Backgrounds2023-01-19 08:54 AM
One of our Zoom users has scheduled an important webinar. She added multiple alternate hosts to the webinar, but none of them received the invitation email. Resending the invitation also does not work, although Zoom gives a message indicating the invitation was sent. Invitations are not in people's individual junk mail, nor caught by our corporate spam. Checking the email system shows the messages never arrived. However, other scheduled webinars' alternate host invitations work correctly. It's just this one critical webinar having a problem.
- Will an alternate host be able to start the meeting from the link that went to regular attendees, or does the alternate host invitation send a special link they need?
-Any ideas what could be causing the invitations not to be sent/delivered correctly? It's not an issue with our corporate email system.
2023-01-21 11:36 PM - edited 2023-09-21 09:46 AM
Welcome to the Zoom Community, @lpeabody-park.
See this Zoom Support article on Alternative Hosts:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/208220166-Designating-an-alternative-host
Especially note the following in the Limitations section:
If you do not send them an invitation via Email like you would any other attendee, just know that they won't receive it directly from Zoom. YOU have to send the meeting link to Alternate Hosts; that's the way it's designed.
Updated Info (9/21/2023):
Zoom will send an email to the designated Alternate Host IF the following setting is enabled:
Go to Personal -> Settings -> Meeting tab and scroll way down or click the Email Notification link.
If the setting is enabled and the designated Alt Hosts aren't getting the email, I'd recommend submitting a Support Ticket with details (meeting ID, Alt Host email address).
2023-05-26 11:26 AM
I have a webinar series that requires registration. As a result, there is no 'Join' link - it's generated per-user when they register. When the Alternative Host tries to register, they get an error message saying "Host can not register".
What is the procedure for my Alternative Host to start the webinar?
2023-09-21 09:11 AM
But that article still states that the alternate host should get an email, and they're not getting them right now.
"When scheduling a meeting, the host can designate another Licensed user on the same account to be the alternative host. The alternative host can start the meeting on the host's behalf. This user will receive an email notifying them that they've been added as an alternative host, with a link to start the meeting. If this email notification is disabled in the Zoom web portal, the alternative host will not receive an email to start the meeting."
2023-09-21 09:26 AM
Hi, @ShelleyW.
Did you check the status of this setting?
Go to Personal -> Settings -> Meeting tab and scroll way down or click the Email Notification link.
2023-09-21 09:28 AM
Yes, it is selected. And our main enterprise account settings are set to send an email when an alternate host is set or removed as well. It used to always send us an email and now all of a sudden it isn't, so strange.
2023-09-21 09:41 AM
So I've just tested it, and got the email:
If you're on an Enterprise, Education, or even Business account, I'd recommend having an admin contact Zoom Support or log a Support Ticket to investigate.
2023-09-21 09:42 AM
Thanks, we are on Enterprise so I will do that.
2023-09-29 11:22 AM
So it turns out that the one user we were dealing with did NOT have the setting to alert an alternate host, even though our other 40+ ones did, so my mistake. Here's what it looks like in the user's settings under "Settings" then "Meetings."
2023-08-17 11:55 AM
Thats is a pretty poor way to handle Alternate hosts - especially when there is a link to click saying "send invitation to alternate host"!!!
2023-09-21 01:39 PM
The problem is that there are two switches that can be enabled. The first is often set by default, but the second, in my case, wasn't set and I didn't read the wording carefully enough on the first switch to realize that I should look for the second switch. However, having not set that switch, I was presented later in the set up of the webinar, a box to click to send the alt host an email. Clicking this box did nothing, so that should be changed.
2023-09-21 02:33 PM
@tmozdzen ... any chance you can identify these switches by name and where they are located? "First switch", "second switch", and "this box" doesn't help me help you, sorry.
2023-09-22 12:49 PM