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Microsoft Teams Meeting, Webinars or Live Events - Confused ??
Have you ever been in a situation where you are confused what solution to use for your upcoming virtual event ? I was in a similar situation last week, where we had to choose the right solution to cater to all our requirements, and honestly it was hard considering Microsoft Teams has lot of features to choose from. Below table helped me take a decision, hope this helps you as well. Note this is not the full list of features, refer to official document for details information. Teams Meetings Webinars Teams Live Events Limit up to 1000 up to 1000 up to 10,000 ( Temporary 20,000 ) View-Only Yes No NA Registration No Yes No Q&A No No Yes Recording Yes Yes Yes Chat Yes (up to 1000) Yes Only for Event Group Custom Production No No Yes Raise Hand Yes Yes No Reaction Yes Yes No Participant List Yes Yes No ( Only for Event Group ) Attendance Yes Yes Yes Closed Caption Yes Yes Yes Mute audio\video Yes Yes Only for Event Group External speaker Yes Yes Yes Lobby Yes Yes Only for Event Group Breakout rooms Upto 300 Upto 300 No Polls Yes Yes No 2 -way communication Yes Yes Only for Event Group Gallery view Yes Yes No Together Mode Yes Yes No Spotlight \ pin Yes Yes No To summarize, Webinar has all the feature of a regular Teams meeting additionally it provides registration capability. The only place where it falls short is view-only mode. Live Event is for Broadcast where attendee are only consuming the video feed with interaction through QnA only. Custom Production tools and RTMP could be used to create layout for broadcast. Resources for reference : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/view-only-meeting-experience https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/schedule-a-webinar-0719a9bd-07a0-47fd-8415-6c576860f36a https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/05/11/introducing-webinars-in-microsoft-teams-easy-professional-webinars-to-engage-customers/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-analytics-and-reports/meeting-attendance-report https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-live-events/what-are-teams-live-events
Live Event Guest user add new background
Hi, A user has been added as a guest to our tenant, so that they can present in our Teams Live Event. All of this has been set up correctly, the user can enter as a presenter and everything is as expected. However, the user needs to add their own background to their video feed, to keep everyone's backgrounds consistent. We have instructions on how to do this, by clicking the "Add new" button at the top of the background settings menu. They can access the background settings menu, however there is no "add new" button. This works on my own account and is available for us. I tested it with another guest account and again there is no "add new" button. I assume this is something to do with being a guest user. Is there a way to resolve this for Live Events, as the user needs this option. ThanksEmbed 'registration form' of a Teams Webinar in an iFrame: slow loading.
Hi, I'm trying to embed a Teams Webinar Registration-form on our company-website. It's a 'for everyone' registration form, so no MS-account needed to register. I'm trying this through a simple iFrame, with as the source url the registration-link as provided in the Teams-meeting (webinar-type). But it is loading very slow (takes ages/keeps hanging?) and sometimes it looks as if it is trying to open a pop-up which is getting blocked by default by most browsers. Any suggestion or alternative methods to embed these kind of registration-forms from MSTeams?
