What are Teams Live Events?
Team Live events is an easy and powerful way to host a webinar from within Teams. Here are some things you can accomplish with Teams Live Events:
- Schedule, produce and broadcast meetings up to 100K attendees
- Attendees watch the event live or on-demand via desktop, web, and mobile
- Q&A manager and attendance reporting directly in Teams
- Supports hardware-based encoders for advanced events.
What can I do with Teams Live Events to Mimic the In-Person Event?
- Arrange for various speakers–keynotes, principals, Valedictorians, Salutatorians, multiple speakers, board members, etc. to present and share with audiences.
- Create a slide show with pictures of graduates and read names aloud for each student to be recognized.
- Allow parents/family to share congrats using the Q&A manager.
- Record and share for those that may have missed the live event.
How can we make this happen NOW?
- Connect with your local Microsoft representatives to get the process started.
- Reach out to the Microsoft 365 live events assistance team for help and an extension on the attendee count (up to 100,000 viewers).
- Look through the Get Started with Microsoft Teams Live Events.
- Review technical documentation for Teams Live Events and ensure that settings are properly enabled.
THE PROCESS
Pre-Production
- Ensure that all producers/presenters have the Teams client installed on a computer. They cannot act as a producer/presenter from a browser/mobile device.
- Producers/presenters MUST be authenticated users. For a Guest to be a presenter, they must be added to Azure Active Directory.
- Producer(s) should run the event on a wired connection and not WiFi, if possible.
- Have two producers in case something happens to the connection of one.
- Live Events settings can be adjusted up until the event launches live.
- Establish your content-sharing practice in advance. If there are multiple presenters, will one person share all content, or will each person share their own?
- Consider having a back-up live event created and ready to share links should something happen with the original. (This is not required.)
- Live captions and subtitle language(s) need to be selected before the meeting begins. (Up to 6 languages may be chosen.)
- Always have a moderator assigned to weed through, answer questions while the session is running, condense similar questions to be asked during a Q&A timeslot.
- Do a trial run at least once before attempting the Live Event.
- Schedule the live event for longer than you expect it to last. (Current max time is 4 hours.)
During Production
- There is no “preview share” before you share your screen. Ensure that content is ready before sharing.
- The producer will see all screens –Queue, live feed, all presenters, and presenter content.
- Once you hit the END button, this STOPS the Live Event, and you CANNOT restart. Be VERY careful.
- Q&A can be turned on and off throughout the production.
- You CANNOT invite a presenter once the event has started.
- As a presenter, limit the number of additional devices/streaming from your location that may slow your bandwidth.
Post-Production
- Only Teams Live Events producers have the right to manage the recording.
- See this documentation for instructions on downloading and sharing.