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Alternatively, participants unable to update due to IT restrictions, can join through the web client instead.

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If two-way chat with Waiting Room participants is enabled, the host and all participants will be required to upgrade to the minimum version or higher to join meetings.

You can only enable Waiting Room for these meetings using the Security option in your in-meeting controls.

The Waiting Room is disabled by default for instant meetings and Zoom Phone calls elevated to a meeting.

Use a webinar practice session as an alternative. You can set internal account members or participants with a specific domain to bypass the Waiting Room.

If the Waiting Room is enabled and set to capture all incoming participants, join before host will not work for that meeting.

In our article on using Waiting Room there are the following limitations: (Article source: ) Limitations of Waiting Room Without 'Join before host' enabled the experience is slightly different until the host joins the call, participants awaiting the start of the meeting would get a prompt that the host has not yet started the meeting, and once the host arrives, all participants waiting would automatically be allowed to join. With waiting room enabled, users would remain in the waiting room until a host (or alternative host) allows them to join the meeting, so if a host cannot attend, other settings may need to be used (again, alternative host, or internal users could be allowed to bypass waiting room with proper account settings) to allow users to actively join. Not exactly when considering that Join Before Host is intended to allow participants to join into the meeting without requiring the host to be present (either in advance of host joining or when host cannot attend at all). ' If we enable Joining the Meeting Before the Host AND enable the Waiting Room, will people joining early or late be automatically placed in the Waiting Room?' Participants will see your custom Waiting Room branding when they join the meeting.

Note: Videos for the waiting room require version 5.7.3 or higher. Videos can include sound, but are muted by default. The video must be in MP4, MOV, or M4V format, and cannot exceed 30 MB. Video: Click Upload Video to select a file for upload.A video: Display the title message and a video you upload.Description: Click inside the text box to update the description.It cannot exceed 1MB and the minimum height and width is 60px, while the maximum is 400px. Logo: Click Upload Logo to select a file for upload.A logo and description: Display the title message, a logo you upload, and a message.The default screen: Just displays the title text above and the meeting topic.Choose what Participants in the waiting room will see:.Note: Titles are limited to 64 characters. Title: Click inside the text box to update the meeting title.This will open the Waiting Room customization options. After enabling Waiting Room, click Customize Waiting Room.You can customize the Waiting Room title, logo, and description at an account, group, or user level. You can add branding messaging to the waiting room if that helps the experience for the participants:

Yes that is correct - from a user perspective you are providing a different prompt, and from a host perspective they have more granular control over allowing users to join.

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