Updated June 12, 2025: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers will be able to send one-way messages to attendees in the meeting lobby using the Lobby chat. The Lobby chat is intended to optimize the lobby experience for all participants, ensuring that organizers are better equipped to run external meetings and external attendees are well informed about the meeting when it begins. This feature is on by default and admins can choose to disable it in the Teams admin center (TAC).

This message applies to Teams on Desktop, Mac, Web

iOS and Android will be released shortly

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 480716.