Troubleshooting: Zoom Error "Host has another meeting in progress"

If one person is the host of overlapping meetings, and if that host joins the first meeting, participants in the second meeting will see the error "Host has another meeting in progress" and will not be able to join the meeting even if this host has the option set to allow participants to join before the host.

There are a few ways to avoid this error:

• If the host has the "join before host" setting turned on and does not join the first meeting, both meetings can continue without incident. Here are Zoom's instructions on enabling that setting (link opens in a new tab).
• If the host leaves the first meeting and designates one of the participants there as the new host, participants will then be able to join the second meeting. Here are Zoom's instructions on leaving another participant as host (link opens in a new tab). 
• Have another person create the meeting link for the second meeting.