Joining a meeting before the host in a Zoom Room

It is quite common for a Zoom user to schedule a Zoom meeting, include a Zoom Room, and attend the meeting from the Zoom Room itself. Depending on meeting configuration settings, the meeting host may need to start the meeting from their desktop or mobile client before the Zoom Room and other users can join, or may need to enter their host key on the Zoom Room Controller. To streamline this process, an administrator can configure the Zoom Rooms of their account to automatically join Zoom meetings hosted by users on their account. If this feature is enabled and the Zoom Room joins before the host or other meeting participants, the Zoom Room will automatically become the meeting host and start the meeting. The actual meeting host can always reclaim host privileges after joining the meeting.

Requirements for joining as a Zoom Room host

• Zoom Rooms for Conference Room
  • PC: global minimum version or higher
  • macOS: global minimum version or higher
• Zoom Rooms Controller
  • Android: global minimum version or higher
  • iOS: global minimum version or higher
• Administrator or Role with edit access to Zoom Rooms on the web portal

How to enable joining as a Zoom Rooms host

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2. Click Room Management, then Zoom Rooms. 
3. Click Account Settings. 
   Note: This setting can also be enabled using the location hierarchy.
4. Click the Meeting tab.
5. Under the Zoom Rooms heading, verify that the toggle for Make Zoom Rooms the host if it joins before meeting host and other participants is enabled . 
6. If the toggle is disabled , click it and then click Enable. 
7. (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.