{"id":4536,"date":"2019-02-05T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2020-04-29T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:48:10","slug":"did-you-know-microsoft-teams-will-mute-your-microphone-when-joining-a-large-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4536","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 Microsoft Teams will mute your microphone when joining a large meeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several offices ago I sat across from a L.O.U.D talker. A loud talker who was <em>constantly<\/em> on a conference call. I\u2019d try to remember to mute my line <em>before<\/em> joining a bridge but didn\u2019t always remember. Random background noise isn\u2019t <em>so<\/em> bad when you\u2019re about to talk to two or three close colleagues, but background noise becomes inundating when the twenty-something people in my department all join a bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Teams helps you avoid a deluge of background noise in your call. When you join a \u201clarge\u201d meeting \u2013more than five people already in the meeting \u2013 your microphone is muted as you join. A notification is displayed prior to joining the meeting to remind you the microphone will be muted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1426\" height=\"676\" class=\"wp-image-4537\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/word-image-6.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/word-image-6.png 1426w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/word-image-6-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/word-image-6-768x364.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/word-image-6-1024x485.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1426px) 100vw, 1426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can click the microphone button in the meeting control bar to un-mute your microphone and begin speaking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"105\" class=\"wp-image-4538\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/word-image-7.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/word-image-7.png 441w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/word-image-7-300x71.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Begin PayPal Donations by https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/paypal-donations-widgets-plugin -->\n\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_blank\">\n    <div class=\"paypal-donations\">\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_donations\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"bn\" value=\"TipsandTricks_SP\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"paypal@lisa.rushworth.us\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"return\" value=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/thanks.php\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"Donation\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_number\" value=\"MuteLargeMeeting\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rm\" value=\"0\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\" \/>\n        <input type=\"image\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" \/>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n<\/form>\n<!-- End PayPal Donations -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several offices ago I sat across from a L.O.U.D talker. A loud talker who was constantly on a conference call. I\u2019d try to remember to mute my line before joining a bridge but didn\u2019t always remember. Random background noise isn\u2019t so bad when you\u2019re about to talk to two or three close colleagues, but background &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[675,691,729,666,686],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-did-you-know","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-ms-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6340,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}