{"id":1018158,"date":"2026-07-01T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018158"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:35:34","slug":"microsoft-has-a-new-way-to-keep-bots-out-of-teams-meetings-heres-how-it-will-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/microsoft-has-a-new-way-to-keep-bots-out-of-teams-meetings-heres-how-it-will-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft has a new way to keep bots out of Teams meetings: Here\u2019s how it will work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is introducing a new feature in Microsoft Teams designed to prevent unwanted AI bots from automatically joining meetings. The company has started rolling out a new Teams admin policy that detects external bots, places them in the meeting lobby, and requires organisers to explicitly approve them before they can join.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Microsoft product marketing manager Meera Ajam wrote, \u201cBots have begun joining meetings that participants never intended them to attend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is introducing a new feature in Microsoft Teams designed to prevent unwanted AI bots from automatically joining meetings. The company has started rolling out a new Teams admin policy that detects external bots, places them in the meeting lobby, and requires organisers to explicitly approve them before they can join. In a blog post, Microsoft product marketing manager Meera Ajam wrote, \u201cBots have begun joining meetings that participants never intended them to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018159,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018158\/revisions\/1018159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}