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External presenter can't join live-event after it started?
External Presenters are now much easier to handle, I made a video demo of it today
What Microsoft call Webinars is also coming soon, and isn't related to Live Events but regular meetings. As meetings will soon allow 1000 attendees with an overflow to 10,000 viewers we don't need to use a Live Event in order to achieve scale, it's more of an choice whether you need the production experience. Maybe required for an all company broadcast, but not for what most of us would call a webinar. Meetings already have plenty of capabilities for attendee and presenter roles (including promotion), audio mute, video mute, reactions, raise hands etc. etc.
The feature being called Webinars is really meeting registration, you can create a sign-up page where people can register for your meeting and then they receive an actual invite. There's then some kind a connection between the registered people and who attended. It's due by End May.
wo_kn Paul McDevitt Have you seen this addition? Just noticed it and thought about this conversation.
"Anonymous Presenter Support for Live Events - Rolling out"
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=%2C70599
- I hadn’t but not sure it is addressing the intended use of Microsoft Live. I guess the real question is whether it is intended primarily for internal events or to be used as a general purpose Webinar tool. At the recent Ignite, one of the sessions (and post event blogs) suggested recent changes have made Microsoft Live ready for prime time as a webinar tool. From my personal experience this is not true. It is missing some key capabilities like presenting a custom screen to attendees so they know exactly what event they have joined that has not yet started (we see high drop off when people join and see the generic screen), the ability to track who has come to the event. (The join anonymously is the easiest for them to join but then we don’t know who has joined.) the inability to promote a speaker from the attendee list. We need to invite external presenters easily and without tenant related issues. (Even internal events often include a guest speaker.) Remember, most people join right on the time or just after the time specified. This doesn’t leave a lot of time to overcome any issues that we run into. My experience with WebEx Events, GoTo Webinar events is that we run into none of these issues. The pronto have is that as long as Microsoft (and key influencers) pass off Microsoft Live as a mainstream webinar tool my CEO wants us to use it. So we continue to run into issues that are explained away as the organizers incompetence and not shortcomings in the tool.
Paul McDevitt Hello, my intention with the previous reply was just a heads-up as it's rolling out now. When it comes to Teams Live Events I'm not the member who should reply to be honest. I know pretty much about Teams except Live Events. That's why I tried to ping Linus earlier but people are busy with their day-to-day jobs so sometimes you just have to go via the official channels to get in touch with the experts in the Microsoft support.
About the webinars and the other associated features they are all scheduled for April/May!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Teams%2CIn%20development%2CLaunched&searchterms=webinar
- Thanks. I get that. It seems the Microsoft Live is a rarely understood feature. We have been using for 6+ months to run events. We run into different issues or have been reviewing the capabilities comparing to other platforms. I notice I generally get shot down by those who don't actually use it much (as a defence of Microsoft 365.) We sell Microsoft 365 (our experience mostly on the voice side) so we have a vested interest in it working well, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't point out where it is not fit for purpose. As in, don't represent it as a webinar event tool for public audiences if it is primarily a large enterprise internal tool, for example.
Anyway, this forum has been one of the few to take these questions seriously and offer real answers or help. So thanks for that.
External Presenters are now much easier to handle, I made a video demo of it today
What Microsoft call Webinars is also coming soon, and isn't related to Live Events but regular meetings. As meetings will soon allow 1000 attendees with an overflow to 10,000 viewers we don't need to use a Live Event in order to achieve scale, it's more of an choice whether you need the production experience. Maybe required for an all company broadcast, but not for what most of us would call a webinar. Meetings already have plenty of capabilities for attendee and presenter roles (including promotion), audio mute, video mute, reactions, raise hands etc. etc.
The feature being called Webinars is really meeting registration, you can create a sign-up page where people can register for your meeting and then they receive an actual invite. There's then some kind a connection between the registered people and who attended. It's due by End May.StevenC365 thanks. This actually answers a couple of things I noticed vis-a-vis the GUID. We suspect someone shared a link as we had three of four coming into the 'lobby' which surprised us (clearly had a presenter link shared.) But also the confusion over using the Microsoft Download vs Join by web. We had actually told everyone to use the latter - including presenters. Perhaps that was part of our issue.
We don't want these people to be guests of our tenant for sure. Especially when it is to be a one-off guest presenter. It sounds like we are part way there now with these changes.
BTW do you know if it is possible to reduce the attendee delay? Right now it is set to an inordinately long time. If at the end of the presentation someone asks if the audience has questions please pop into the Q&A, there could be a very pregnant pause. We put notes into the Q&A and usually have a 'seed' question ready to fill the gap but it does seem like an unnecessarily long delay.
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