Hi. We're hosting internal presentations on Zoom Meetings. Some of our guest presenters will be external (different email domain), some internal to our company (same email domain). I'll be made a co-host by the meeting creator.

I want some private prep time with the guest presenter prior to allowing everyone to join to do A/V checks, housekeeping, and the like. It'll be me, the host, and the presenter. A few minutes before the scheduled meeting time, I'll allow the attendees in.

If we enable the Waiting Room feature, we can let the guest presenter in, and up to a few dozen people will be waiting.

1. Can we allow everyone in at once?

2. Can the Waiting Room be disabled so late attendees can come in without host interaction?

3. Is the Waiting Room the best way to resolve this problem?

4. At the end of the presentation, can I kick everyone out except those designated as host/co-host/presenter (i.e. everyone who was in the Waiting Room) as a group? Or do they need to be manually removed one-by-one?

Thanks!

Hello, my company is in the process of deploying Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon gen 13 (model 21NT) across our enterprise, and we cannot get Zoom audio to work anymore on USB wired Plantronics headsets for those people who have the new laptops.  Normally I would chalk this up to the laptop since that's what's changed, but it's just audio and only in Zoom.  The headsets work fine for Windows system audio, work fine in Teams and other audio applications, and even the microphone works fine and records and plays back OK in Zoom if I select a different audio device to test with.

Things I have tried so far: updating the firmware on the headset (the one I'm testing with is a Plantronics Blackwire 3215, I'm not sure of the specific model others with the issue have but they're all similar models), updating all drivers and firmware on the laptop, updating Zoom.  I'm testing with Zoom 6.5.12.

Has anyone else encountered this issue?  I realize it's fairly narrow band but I'd prefer to not have to tell a bunch of people to go buy a different headset just because it doesn't work in Zoom anymore.