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Microsoftdhthompson61 Thanks as always for the feedback. The Q&A experience used with town hall is the same stack as with meetings and is indeed leveraging Viva Engage as the backend tech stack. You are correct that replies and reactions are not anonymous - the UI on the attendee side only shows the "post anonymously" option during a new post, and not with replies; the notice on the organizer side let's them know how to handle that use case - and adapt if necessary (for example, customers I work with have at times disabled the ability to reply, when enabling anonymous posts). Regarding your other link to reactions in town hall, we don't expose attendee names at all in town hall (outside of the Q&A) so you wouldn't see who sent what reaction during the event. We are also investigating support for auto-refresh of the Q&A feed.
Stevie_G you can have a maximum of 100 presenters, 20 of which can be external presenters (noted here -> Schedule a town hall in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support). Yes, we are working on bringing back the green room post-event. We are also working on updating functionality in the Green Room to allow for pre-reels, but that is a bit further out.
SteveUlrichTE it is not expected to see and error at the end of the event. When it is completed, the meeting should end (and the window close). We are also working on bringing a more friendly end slate.
1anJR You cannot change an event type once published. We had an incident a while back regarding external presenters being added post-event, this should be resolved (ensure they are using the desktop client). You can add presenters from the scheduling UI after publishing and it is expected to work. Adding folks during the call (from within the Teams UI, called "nudging" is being worked on in H2). We don't support VTC yet - coming later this year. Queueing of content is coming later this CY. We're adding sorting/voting to Q&A later this quarter. Chat is available only for the event team members, that should be functional today.
BradGill Thanks for the kind words - I would not expect the recording to behave in that manner, it should begin the recording shortly after you have hit start meeting (assuming you are using the default "auto recording" setting).
Beth_P1230 You will see this particular view when you are sharing content, often from a secondary monitor/window. There is no queueing in town hall currently, so shared content is automatically visible to attendees - sharing would be noted by the red border around your screen/window. This is not related to licensing, this is how the "manage what attendees see" feature operates. We have improvements to the presenter experience coming as well - see roadmap ID 383653 -> Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365.
knieper We are working on 16:9 support later this year. Yes, we're working to bring back the green room post-event. Download of Q&A is planned in Q2. As noted earlier, reactions are not anonymous in Q&A; I will raise this feedback with the feature owners. Adding presenters is supported using the scheduling form, the nudge support is coming later this year.
As an FYI, we have launched a new adoption site -> https://aka.ms/townhalladoption which has the current Q2 roadmap items. We will continue to update this site as information becomes available, and cross-link to the main M365 roadmap site when relevant. Our virtual event playbook is in the process of being updated with all the latest events items (meetings, webinars, town hall) - expect that content by end of April.