MT.1037: Only users with Presenter role are allowed to present in Teams meetings
| ID | MT.1037 |
| Severity | Low |
| Suite | Mito |
| Product | Teams |
| Feature | Meetings |
| Security area | Email and collaboration protection |
| Resource type | Tenant |
| User impact of fixing | Medium |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:AC-6 Least Privilege |
| Reads from | Microsoft Teams |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”This test checks the Org-wide default meeting policy is configured to only allow users in the Presenter role to request control and share content during meetings.
Restricting who can present limits meeting disruptions and reduces the risk of unwanted or inappropriate content being shared.
Remediation action
Section titled “Remediation action”To prevent standard attendees from sharing content during Teams meetings:
- Click here to open Org-wide default settings > Meetings
- Or navigate to Teams Admin Center.
- Click Settings & policies > Org-wide default settings > Meetings.
- Scroll to the Content sharing section.
- Set Participants can give or request control to Off.
- Click Save.
Related links
Section titled “Related links”- Manage meeting policies for content sharing
- 7 tips for safe online meetings and collaboration with Microsoft Teams - Tip 3: Determine who can present content or share their screen in your Teams meeting
Mito check. Author: weyCC81; contributors: merill. Open-source licences.
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