Microsoft Teams: Mute All Meeting Participants

Overview

Overview: A helpful feature in Teams, Mute All, provides the ability to minimize distractions and extraneous noise of participants – this is especially helpful as participants arrive into the meeting or at the beginning of a meeting. 

Once the organizer or other participant performs the steps below, participants, currently in the meeting and any that enter after these steps are taken, will be muted. The individual who completed these steps will be the only individual not muted. Participants can un-mute at any time by selecting the microphone icon in their toolbar. 

Instructions

  1. Select People icon on your Teams meeting toolbar. 

Microsoft Teams meeting toolbar highlighting the People icon, which the user selects.

  1. Select the Mute All button in the Participants menu. 

Microsoft Teams Participants panel showing the Mute all button, which the organizer selects.

  1. Select Mute. 

Confirmation dialog asking to mute everyone, with the Mute button selected to confirm.

 

Additional options to disable microphones and/or cameras is available within the Meeting Options. 

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