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LindaKelley
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Someone registered and tried to join a meeting a month early

  • September 7, 2022
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If an attendee tries to join the meeting a month early, could he/she still be in the Waiting Room on the correct day?

Also, if an attendee registers twice, does he/she count as two participants if the host does not notice the duplication?

Thank you!

Linda

    Best answer by Ray_Harwood

    Registration from different email addresses well result in two registrations – but it’s not possible to register twice with the same email address.

     

     Anyone attempting to enter early with Waiting Room turned on will indeed land in a waiting room and potentially wait a long time. Not much different than real life going to a meeting room and nobody else shows up. The entry likely wait too long. 

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    Ray_Harwood
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    Ray_HarwoodAnswer
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    September 8, 2022

    Registration from different email addresses well result in two registrations – but it’s not possible to register twice with the same email address.

     

     Anyone attempting to enter early with Waiting Room turned on will indeed land in a waiting room and potentially wait a long time. Not much different than real life going to a meeting room and nobody else shows up. The entry likely wait too long. 

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    bonitz-at-NCSU
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    December 1, 2022

    Is it possible for me as a host to open a meeting early, then set it to mute/camera-off and let it run in the background?  I have a conflict for a meeting time, but I want others to be able to join the meeting and participate normally.

     

    If so, how much earlier can I join my meeting?  30 minutes?  

     

    Also, is there any way to assign co-host duties (or reassign as host) to someone NOT associated with my organization?  I'm pretty sure there is not.  But wanted to see if there is a workaround.  Attaching screenshot that says only people on the same Paid plan with the same account can be given schedule privilege and become co-host or host. 

     

    By the way, I searched the Zoom Community for answer on these two questions before asking here.

     

    Thank you!

    Ray_Harwood
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    Ray_Harwood
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    December 2, 2022

    Hey, @bonitz-at-NCSU,

     

    I'm going to write an expanded answer to your question -- something that I hope will have value to many Zoom Community visitors who ask something like, "I can't be at a regularly scheduled meeting that I set up... how can the meeting proceed without me?"

     

    There are several ways, but as you alluded to, as long as you believe that only authorized people will have access to the meeting link (therefore reducing the possibility of "Zoom-bombing"), you can set the meeting to have a Passcode, not use Waiting Rooms, and set Join Before Host to 15 minutes or less.  Then anyone with the Join link can join and meet... there just won't be anyone as the official Host.

     

    There are ways to designate a Host.  If you’re interested in this, please view these Zoom Support articles for more information:

    I know the support articles can be a little detailed and tedious, but I hope they give you some direction.  Feel free to ask additional questions here.

     

    (Update: Sorry, @Bort ... I had started an answer earlier and got distracted.  Good answer, sir!

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