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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.
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.
Thanks
Paul McDevitt The delay is how long it takes Azure Media Services to render the video into different resolutions for the adaptive streaming, there's nothing that can be done about it.
Do these need to be live events at all though, why won't a regular meeting do? They soon will scale in the same way and offer lots of recent controls over attendees vs presenters. No delay either.
- Thanks for the answer as to the reason for the delay.
As to the need to use Live events, I think we have been around this one before. In a regular Teams meeting, everyone can be visible to everyone else. I can see a list of all attendees. Chat is visible to all, etc. If you are running an event to, say, customers or prospects or some group that you do NOT want to see or know about each other - perhaps they are competitors in the same industry - the only way to do it is to use Microsoft Live.