By default the Teams bot will join meeting as guest participant.

This means that, by default, MS Teams bots cannot join meetings which only allow signed in users.

To overcome these limitations, you can configure your Teams bots to sign into a Microsoft account before joining a meeting.

Important Considerations

There are some important things to be aware of when using Microsoft Teams bots:

• The bot name cannot be overridden: Signed in Teams bots get their name from the Teams account used to authenticate the bot, which overrides the bot_name parameter in Create Bot.
• Signed in bots only work for Business Microsoft Teams meetings.

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Personal MS Teams not supported

Bots will fail to join Personal MS Teams links if mandatory login is enabled. While a vast majority of Teams meetings are using Business Teams, you should still be aware of this limitation if you have users that use the Personal version of MS teams.

FAQ

Will the bot always sign into teams calls?

This behavior is configurable according to your use case.

When settings up the credentials in the Recall dashboard, you can toggle this behavior using the Login mandatory checkbox: