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Attendee Limit Increase for Live Events Hosted with Microsoft 365

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danholme
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Mar 31, 2020

As more in person meetings, classes, conferences and communications move to an online format, Microsoft has been listening to our customers and their needs in order to help navigate the changing remote work landscape.  

 

Many organizations are adopting online meetings to support initiatives from distance learning with students, to day-to-day workplace activities like recurring project checkpoints that help keep employees connected and productive.   

 

For organizations that need a way to reach many people at scale, Microsoft 365 live events enable you to deliver an immersive video broadcast to large audiences with interactive conversation, questions and answers. Live events can be hosted in Teams or Yammer, or you can create a customized event experience using Microsoft Stream. 

 

Beginning today, to help support our customers, through June 30, 2021, events for as many as 100,000 attendees can be requested through our live events assistance program.  

 

  • Teams Meetings for up to 250 participants
  • Live events for up to 20,000 attendees through Teams, Stream and Yammer*
  • Live events for up to 100,000 attendees in Stream when planned through live events assistance program
  • On-demand recordings for unlimited numbers of viewers so anyone who could not participate during the live event, doesn’t miss out. 

We hope that these meeting and live event solutions, and increased attendee limits will help customers address the growing need for large scale communications.

 

Learn more about meetings and live events and check out additional resources to help you get started.

 

*Additional temporary limit increase for live events. Live Events Assistance Program team is not required. 

Updated Oct 11, 2022
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16 Comments

  • carlson4's avatar
    carlson4
    Copper Contributor

    Agree with amannall, also at a University, having the ability to have more than 15 concurrent streams at once will be essential during this remote education requirement.

     

    Also to the point of David Phillips, having the ability to share to 100K people publicly would be essential as some enterprises and universities are not all in one tenant or even the same platform (Microsoft vs Google) therefore having the ability to share with external recipients would hugely helpful with the increase to 100K.

  • Hello - I have a question about this:

     

    Beginning today, to help support our customers, through July 1, Microsoft will enable custom events for as many as 100,000 attendees from inside or outside your organization through our live events assistance program.  

     

    • Live events for up to 10,000 attendees hosted in Teams and Yammer
    • Live events for up to 100,000 attendees hosted in a customized event experience using Microsoft Stream

    Does this mean Stream is available for public consumption?  Or does it mean 10k for internal / external and 100k for internal only?

     

    Thank you!

  • amannall's avatar
    amannall
    Iron Contributor

    As a university we have demand for more than 15 five events concurrently and also for longer events.  There is a user voice for increasing concurrency at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/599053-schools-and-universities/suggestions/40045240-live-event-concurrency

     

  • thanks for the feedback John Moore and DaithiG! The team is looking into length of event and registration options as part of the Microsoft 365 live events workstream. I'll pass this along 🙂

  • DaithiG's avatar
    DaithiG
    Iron Contributor

    This looks good. Would be great to have a registration page for "anonymous" users too.

  • This is awesome Dan!  Something that would also help (maybe even more folks) would be removing the 4 hour limit on events as well as the 15 concurrent events per tenant limit.