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 .

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With over 20 years of hands-on experience in IT infrastructure, Lasse Nordvik Wedø is a consulting director and a principal solutions architect at Innofactor Norge, a leading Nordic provider of digitalization and cloud solutions. He specializes in unified communications and collaboration, identity and access management, device management, and cybersecurity, helping customers migrate and adopt Microsoft cloud services securely and efficiently.

Lasse is also an M365 Apps & Services MVP, a prestigious recognition from Microsoft for his technical expertise and community contributions. He has received nine awards since 2015, and co-authored the book “Lync Server Cookbook” from Packt Publishing. He is an international speaker, a blogger, and a co-organizer of several events and communities related to Office 365 and Microsoft cloud technologies. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and insights with peers and customers, and driving innovation and excellence in the IT industry.

Contributor to communities:
Co-organizer of MVP-Dagen: https://mvpdagen.no
Co-organizer of Norwegian Office 365 Community Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/NSC-Oslo/
Co-organizer of Bergen Microsoft Community: https://bergenmicrosoftcommunity.one/

Publications:
- Contributor to "Lync Server 2013 Cookbook" by Packt Publishing: (Dec 2014)
- Author of MVP Technical Tuesday article: "Automating the collection of CQM data"

Speaker:
- MS Ignite 2018: THR2039 Is voice in the cloud right for you?
- MS Ignite 2016: Configure Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition with your SBC
- Trio brukerforum 2016: Skype for Business; Past, Present and Future
NIC 5th edition: Unified Communications – Unplugged
- MS Ignite 2014: Managing Backup and Restore in Skype for Business (coming soon)
- Breakfast seminar March 2014: Goodbye Lync, Hello Skype for Business
- Lyncday 2014: Lync 2013 backup and restore
- Teched 2014: Managing Microsoft Lync 2013 backup and restore

Awards:
- M365 Apps & Services MVP (July 2023)
- M365 Apps & Services MVP (July 2022)
- Office Apps and Services MVP (July 2021)
- Office Apps and Services MVP (July 2020)
- Office Apps and Services MVP (July 2019)
- Office Apps and Services MVP (July 2018)
- Office Servers and Services MVP (July 2017)
- Office Servers and Services MVP (April 2016)
- Skype for Business MVP (April 2015) - Renamed Office Servers and Services MVP
- Microsoft Community Contributor (2011)