Cant join skype meeting as guest
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Teams currently offers data residency in Australia, Canada, France, India, Japan, and the United Kingdom for new tenants only. Currently, Teams supports Australia, Canada, France, India, Japan, United Kingdom, Americas, APAC, and EMEA regions. It’s worth noting that data in Microsoft Teams resides in the geographic region associated with your Office 365 tenant. Microsoft Teams Data residency is not the same as conferencing service residency I haven’t found a good public reference for all the possible conference locations, and no doubt it is being continually expanded too. In what Office 365 regions/data centres are the conference services for Microsoft Teams? Now with Microsoft Teams, those same meetings are hosted in Europe, even on a US Office 365 tenant. In reality, this is how I ran for some time and it didn’t seem that impactful, but it is suboptimal.
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So previously if I scheduled a meeting in SfB Online with any number of people all in Europe, our meeting would still be hosted in the US.
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For example, Modality Systems Office 365 tenant is in the US, but I’m in London. This is better than Skype for Business Online (without Regionally Hosted Meetings, which is nearly all SfB Online). Your Teams conference location is allocated at the time the first joiner joins (not the organiser, but any first joiner) and it is automatically allocated to the conferencing service in the region nearest to that first joiner. “A Microsoft Teams conference is hosted by Office 365 in the same region where the first participant joined.” Microsoft Teams is cloud only, so your meetings are on/in Office 365, but physically where? It’s not the same as Skype for Business, your conference won’t necessarily be homed in the same place/region as your Office 365 tenant. There was an option to have “ Regionally Hosted Meetings” in Skype for Business Online, essentially homing select users to different Office 365 regions or geos, but it never went mainstream. In Skype for Business Online, it was pretty easy too, your Office 365 tenant is in a particular location, and your Skype for Business Online service (essentially a bunch of SfB servers) would also be there, so that’s where your meetings were hosted. Often we would deploy regional pools to best serve users in their region. In Skype for Business Server, this was pretty easy, if you scheduled the meeting it would be hosted on your home server pool, always. This is interesting as connectivity can impact conference performance and generally speaking more local can mean a better connection. It looks like there is no way to avoid launching the application if it's actually installed, or to sign in as a guest.People (well, very technical people ) are often interested to understand where in the world their Microsoft Teams meeting will be physically hosted, or, to use an older term, where in the world the MCU (Multipoint Control Unit, the thing in conferencing that mixes all the streams together) is located. The issue: someone invites you to a meeting, but you don't have a Lync/SfB account, thus you need to join the meeting as an external guest by clicking on the meeting link you received however, the application is actually installed on your computer, as part of the Office 2013 package in this scenario, clicking the meeting link will automatically launch the application, but then it will get stuck on asking you for sign in information, which you don't have. I've stumbled upon a bizarre problem with Skype for Business 2015 (the client application, previously known as Lync 2013 but automatically upgraded to SfB 2015 by some Office update) maybe I'm missing something, but I'm unable to find a solution, hence this question.