Personal meeting ID

There is a setting that allows this behavior. I don't personally use this feature, as I feel I would end up with an unscheduled visitor in a different meeting. Once they get that first invite with your PMI they can click on it anytime in the future and end-up in exactly the same place... maybe even when you're meeting with somebody else.

But, here is where you can find that setting. It is located in the Zoom Web Portal, under Schedule -> Schedule Meeting section. Here is a screenshot...

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Related question (which I could not find an answer to online): If we set aside the security concerns, why can't I just use my Personal Meeting ID for all meetings? Use that same link, and send it out via email to the attendees? And never preschedule the meeting with Zoom? In essence, every meeting would become an ad-hoc meeting. This would provide great ease and flexibility in scheduling meetings. I can do all my scheduling via email.

Possible downsides: 1) this assumes my meetings are small, and that Zoom's servers will always have capacity to support my ad-hoc meetings. 2) There is a small risk that since I always use the same meeting link, someone will use that link to "bomb" another of my meetings at another time.

At my previous employer, we used a different web conferencing provider (not Zoom) and we used this method all of the time to host meetings. Same personal link for every meeting, sent out via email, never bothered to schedule the meetings in the provider's servers. I didn't worry about "bombing" because the meetings were small and I personally knew all of the attendees.

Thoughts? Thanks!

Ken S.

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