Authenticated profiles allow meeting hosts to restrict participants who can join a Zoom meeting or webinar. The meeting can be restricted to UAlbany users with *@albany.edu email addresses only or to any user with a Zoom account. This setting will force participants to log into Zoom before they can join the meeting or webinar. If you are faculty or a student, these settings are already in place. Visit here to learn more.

If a participant tries to join the meeting or webinar before logging into Zoom according to the authentication set by the meeting host, they will receive one of the following messages: 

• if the participant is not logged into Zoom:
  
  

• if the participant is logged in, but with an email address other than UAlbany Mail, *@albany.edu:
  
  

To use Authenticated Profiles for Zoom Meeting:

1. Sign In at https://albany.zoom.us

2. Click on Settings

3. Enable the options by clicking on the toggle so they are blue: Only authenticated users can join meetings and Only authenticated users can join meetings from Web client. 
   
   

4. Now, Schedule a Zoom meeting

5. Under Meeting Options, click Only authenticated users can join
    

6. The default option is for UAlbany Users only. 
   
   

    

7. Click the arrow next to UAlbany Users to select the option for Anyone with Zoom.