

“This web experience provides up-to-date software as well as enterprise-grade privacy and security.”Īs this partnership grows, the companies will add new features and functionalities, per the blog. “Third-party providers like Zoom provide an embedded web experience that temporarily allows Teams Rooms users to join third-party meetings and collaborate more freely,” the company says in a Tech Community blog. Left out, at least so far, is Google Meet. While Microsoft says the interoperability of Direct Guest Join will begin with Zoom, the company says it also worked with meeting platform competitors Cisco Webex, GoToMeeting and BlueJeans to create the interoperability experience. In short, this allows users to join meetings on other platforms through Teams. The solution is designed to help reduce friction when users join calls from external partners or clients that don’t use the same meeting provider. The company calls Direct Guest Join a “one-touch experience” that enables users to join a third-party online meeting from their Teams Rooms just as easily as joining a Teams meeting.

In a significant step towards interoperability between major videoconferencing platforms, Microsoft is making it easier to join third-party meeting platforms from Teams Rooms, starting with Zoom with the launch of Direct Guest Join.
