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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.
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.
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.
Paul McDevitt Understood. You can turn off Meeting Chat for a specific call today, but I'm pretty sure the roadmap will help resolve these other requirements over the rest of this year.