Microsoft Teams How can you disable video calling?

[Harlington_IT]

I've gone into the Global meeting policy and disabled everything under General and Audio & Visual, but it won't disable video calling.

What have I missed?

[robyholmes]

Have a look in the messaging policy. I'm pretty sure its in there.

[Harlington_IT]

Have a look in the messaging policy. I'm pretty sure its in there.

 

Thanks, nothing I can see in there relates to it though, it's all in meeting policies

[robyholmes]

Thanks, nothing I can see in there relates to it though, it's all in meeting policies

 

We have disabled 'Chat' for students in that messaging policy which means they can't message or call each other or staff. Then the meeting policy covers the 'Teams' meet now etc. So I'm not sure you can disable calling without also disabling chat.

[robyholmes]

Just found 'Calling Policies' under voice. See if that helps.

[Harlington_IT]

We have disabled 'Chat' for students in that messaging policy which means they can't message or call each other or staff. Then the meeting policy covers the 'Teams' meet now etc. So I'm not sure you can disable calling without also disabling chat.

 

I've disabled chat too.

But when a teacher hovers their mouse over a student's icon they can video call them.

[robyholmes]

I've disabled chat too.

But when a teacher hovers their mouse over a student's icon they can video call them.

 

Have you tried doing it? If they have chat disabled for students I would have thought it would refuse to call them as well. Or not let them answer. Certainly if staff sends a student a private message they won't get it with chat disabled on the student end.

[Harlington_IT]

I don't know if disabling everything in calls did it, or it just took ages to apply the meeting policy, but now it seems to be disabled, they can start a call and it ends saying the person can't receive calls.

Thanks for all the help!