Manage meeting access settings for your users

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As the IT administrator for your organization, you can create default access settings for meetings within your organization. Users can change these settings for meetings they create.

Select default settings for joining Google Meet meetings

You can set defaults for both whether people have to ask to join a meeting and whether people can join a meeting before a host.

Before you begin: If you need to set up a department or team for this setting, go to Add an organizational unit.

  1. In the Google Admin console, go to Menu and then  Apps and then Google Workspace and then Google Meet.

    Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.

  2. Click Meet safety settings.
  3. (Optional) To apply the setting to a department or team, at the side, select an organizational unit.
  4. Click Joining, or click Access Type and check or uncheck the Host must join before anyone else can join box.
  5. Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.

    To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit (or Unset for a group).

    Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly. Learn more