You may receive an email notification that someone has joined your Zoom Personal Meeting Room, also known as a Personal Meeting ID, PMI. This email notification from Zoom is legitimate and is enabled in your settings by default to notify you when someone joins your Zoom meetings before you.
Although you may not know the individual and did not send an invitation to join a Zoom meeting, someone joined your Zoom Personal Meeting Room. It is possible that the individual mistyped the Meeting ID and mistakenly arrived in your Zoom Personal Room or they were "jiggling virtual knobs" in search of an active meeting.
The Personal Meeting ID is enabled for all users. A Zoom Personal Meeting Room is a virtual meeting room permanently reserved for you. This Meeting ID for your Personal Meeting Room does not expire and is always accessible so if someone has this Meeting ID, they can join it at any time to meet you, even without an invitation. The Personal Meeting ID is usually ideal to use with individuals you know and meet with regularly.
Please learn more about the Personal Meeting ID: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362843-Personal-meeting-ID-PMI-and-personal-link
To prevent unexpected guests from joining your PMI, please enable the following features to protect your Zoom meetings.
-If you do not use your Personal Meeting ID, disable PMI.
-If you wish to maintain the Personal Meeting ID for meetings with known individuals, review the settings on your Personal Meeting room.
-To access your Personal room, sign in at adler.zoom.us, click Meetings and then click Personal Room. Click Edit to make the following changes.
- Change your Personal Meeting ID
- Require a meeting password (Guide: Use Passcodes to Control Zoom Meeting Attendance)
- Enable waiting room (Guide: Use Waiting Rooms to Control Zoom Meeting Attendance )
- Disable Allow participants to join anytime