Email OTP Verification coming to Teams Meetings

Microsoft introducing a new security feature in Teams that will enable enforcements of Email OTP verification for meetings. This new policy, "Anonymous users can join a meeting after verifying," will be available in the Teams Admin Center for all organizations. This feature is available only for meetings created by organizers with a Teams Premium license. The feature is in public preview, but should be rolling out in GA any time soon. The update will roll out automatically. Admins should consider to update the new meeting policy setting from “By e-mail code” to “No” by mid-February if they wish to continue blocking all unverified users (If "No" is the current setting). The policy is described in this article .

Download participant list from Teams meetings

You will soon be able to download a participant list from within your Microsoft Teams meetings. This feature can be helpful to identify who attended a mandatory meeting, but also useful as a tool to identify users with connection problems. Multiple drops and reconnects can be a sign of network issues.
The feature is not enabled by default, and will have to be enabled by an admin with the following command: 
  • Set-CSTeamsMeetingPolicy - Identity Global - AllowEngagementReport "Enabled"
If you want to limit the availability of this feature, you will have to create a separate meeting policy, assign that policy to the users and then scope the above command to that policy.
This feature is available only from within a meeting, and should be rolling out already (early may, according to the admin message center).