Help! Ongoing Issue with Meetings

[Brittany212]

First time poster and I am REALLY hoping someone has a solve for this. I am having an issue with Zoom Meetings that has lasted for at least the past six months, and I haven't been able to figure it out.

Essentially what's happening is if I schedule back to back meetings (Meeting A and B) and Meeting A runs over, Zoom is allowing the participants from Meeting B to join Meeting A while it's still in progress. This is very confusing to me because they are scheduled as separate meetings - and it's very confusing to participants as well.

I think I need to adjust something in my settings but I'm not sure what. I was actually looking at my meetings and I noticed that the Meeting ID and Meeting Password is the same for every meeting I schedule. Could this be the cause? If so, how can I generate unique Meeting IDs and/or passwords?

Thank you so much in advance for your help! 

[Alex_PFT]

Hi,

If your meeting IDs are all the same, you are probably scheduling with your personal room, try to select ''Generate automatically'' instead of ''Personal meeting'' when you create a meeting. 

Also, if you want to prevent participants joining before you, when you create a new meeting, enable the waiting room, or, in advanced options, disable ''allow participants to join anytime''. 

Alex

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