Workaround for the Teams Issue: Video Sharing Is Disabled by Your Administrator

This is how to work around the Microsoft Teams issue: “Video sharing is disabled by the administrator”.

The Issue

This occurs when the meeting policy applying to the organizer has:

• Allow IP video set to On
• Let anonymous people start a meeting set to Off

To reproduce: Invite an external user, they join before the organizer, and then get the message “Video sharing is disabled by the administrator” with the camera icon greyed out. If the organizer leaves and rejoins, video starts working.

Microsoft Response

We raised this with Microsoft and were told it’s by design — because the policies cannot apply before the organizer starts the meeting, Teams doesn’t know if video should be disabled or not.

Workarounds

1. In the Meeting policy applying to users, set Let anonymous people start a meeting to On. This means the meeting starts immediately when the first person joins.
2. Alternatively, the organizer or affected external users can leave and rejoin the meeting.