Enhancements to “Start a Meeting” from the Zoom Bot Meetings Tab and Zoom Message Extension:

Previously the process for starting a meeting was to click the “Start a Meeting” button, enter the participant’s name, and click the ‘Save’ button. The invited participants would then receive a start meeting card . The start meeting process has now been changed as follows.

Only after the host enters the meeting … 

will the invited users receive the start meeting card:

When the host ends the meeting, the participants will see the meeting ended status in the meeting card.

Meetings can be started from Zoom Bot meetings tab …

or from the Zoom Message Extension:

1. Zoom Message Extension change

Previously, “Start a meeting”, “Schedule a meeting “and “Make a call” operations were available when clicking the icon. This has been changed to make the operations available through a pop-up. You can now also configure which operations will be available to users.

2. Using the Zoom Message Extension

• Click the zoom icon in the Chat/group chat/channel. If the zoom bot is not yet in the conversation, a window to invite the zoom bot will pop up. Click “Invite” to add the bot.

• Click “Meet” to launch a Zoom meeting. The Zoom client will be invoked through the browser and the meeting will start.

• Click ‘Schedule” to schedule a Zoom meeting. A meeting message will be displayed in the current conversation.

• Click “Phone” to initiate a phone call and click dial after choosing a number.

3. Enabling Zoom Phone features for Microsoft Teams

1. Sign in to the Zoom App Marketplace as your Zoom account administrator.

2. Click Manage.

3. Select the Microsoft Teams app and choose Configure. The Zoom Marketplace will display the permissions page.
   Note: If Zoom does not display the permissions page, you need to remove and re-add the Microsoft Teams app.

4. Click Enable.

5. Log in to your Microsoft Teams account.

6. Select Consent on behalf of your organization.

7. Enable Phone, and save the changes.