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Hi @Vijay Thakore, 

You can certainly set up a recurring meeting so it appears automatically every week by configuring it as a recurring meeting in Microsoft Teams. 

This is the best way to ensure consistency for you and your participants.  

However, it’s important to know that Microsoft Teams is designed so that meetings do not automatically start on their own when the scheduled time arrives. A meeting only becomes active once someone actually joins it, so there isn’t a way for it to fully launch by itself without any user interaction. 

If your main concern is avoiding the need to manually approve participants, you can address that through the meeting options. By adjusting the lobby settings, you can allow everyone to join directly without waiting to be admitted by the organizer. The steps for doing this are outlined in Using the lobby in Microsoft Teams meetings – Microsoft Support, and the settings can be applied to the entire series of recurring meetings.  

That said, even with these settings in place, participants will still need to click the Join button themselves to enter the meeting. Teams doesn’t currently support automatically joining users into a meeting without that manual step. 

Since this is a user‑to‑user support forum, the best way I can help is by clarifying what is part of the product’s intended design, what scenarios can realistically be implemented, and where the current limitations exist. I’m not able to change or override the default product settings, but I hope this explanation is helpful for your reference and helps set clear expectations moving forward. 

Thank you for your understanding. 

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To run a weekly Teams meeting that starts on a schedule and lets everyone in automatically, configure a recurring meeting and adjust the meeting options so the lobby is bypassed.

1. Schedule a recurring Teams meeting
   1. In Teams, select Calendar > New meeting.
   2. Add a title, date and time, and set it to repeat weekly.
   3. Add all required participants.
   4. Save the meeting so it appears on the calendar.
2. Configure the meeting to auto-admit everyone
   1. Open the meeting from the Teams calendar.
   2. Go to Meeting options (in the meeting details).
   3. Set Who can bypass the lobby to an option that allows everyone you want to join without waiting (for example, everyone in the organization, or everyone including guests, depending on what is available in your tenant).
   4. Save the options.
3. Ensure the meeting “starts” automatically Teams meetings do not fully start themselves without any organizer or participant joining, but:
   • At the scheduled time, the meeting join link is active.
   • As soon as the first person joins, the meeting is live.
   • With the lobby bypass configured, participants will enter directly without needing manual approval.

If a truly unattended auto-start (recording, etc.) is required, an organizer or designated device (like a room system) still needs to join at or before the scheduled time.

References:

• Communicate or meet by using Teams