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Victoria1750
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May 07, 2020

External presenters in Teams Live events

Hi everyone,

 

I am wanting to invite an external presenter to share their video for a live team event but the information I've found suggests that to present they must be using the Teams App on their PC- and that they must create a free account or sign in with a Microsoft account to be able to then follow the link and join that particular event I've invited them too. Have i understood this correctly? I keep reading about tenants that sounds more complicated and something i cant arrange myself but would have to seek permission from IT for. 

 

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    Vertebre85
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    May 07, 2020

    Victoria1750 

    Hi. We had the case internally where we had 2 external visiter as presenter.

    First step to proceed, you need at least to be able to invite external people to a Team. if you are able to add (guest) in on of your teams, you are good to go and don't need to contact your IT.

     

    I found on one of the documentation of Microsoft that they need a at least a Teams account or a Microsoft 365 licence.

    I was able to present with 2 familial Microsoft 365 account on our entreprise licence. But with other type of account ( Gmail or custom Imap provider), I never manage to make it work.

    They also need to have the Team client installed, it doesn't work with the web client.

    If they end up as invitee, you can ask them to join directly from the live event if you are a producer

     

    Finally for my external users, I had to create 2 temporary account on my tenant: one add a custom smtp server and the other add a team account but his alias was not his username ( a strange configuration).

     

    i create several live event as test to handle it, I strongly advise you to do it too.

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