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Guest Presenter in Live Meetings
The App panel that they see is that in the Teams client? They have to get the Teams client up and running so then they need a guest account with access to a Team. Or they need to have an account that is a member of a Teams organisation, Teams free works.
To view a meeting you don't have to be signed in if you create a public event, Org-wide will require all attendees to sign in to your organisation.
I had the same issue, it doesn't seems to be documented anywhere, but you need to invite guest presenters from Teams, just as you did. Otherwise they are not added to your organization in teams. So even if they already had Teams client they won't be able to switch to your organizations.
Well at least inviting them from Teams is enough.
I suspect simply inviting them from Azure AD does not give them access to all resource that is required for Teams guest login.
If they have a Teams account in another tenant you don't need to invite them as guests, then they can be external presenters. If they don't have an existing Teams account you have to invite them as guests.
https://www.lync.se/2020/04/live-events-external-presenters/
Are you certain it is not only working with other tenant if you are "federated" with the actually tenant in question. Some companies have explicit allowed domain list for Teams federation.
I know that we had issues when the guest had a free Teams organization registered with her account.
There was no way for her to switch organizations, nor see could join as a presenter, always ended up as an attendee.ZsoltAsztalos If your administrator blocked some domains for federation that shouldn't stop guest access from that domain. But guest access could also be blocked for a domain and that is the case it will be problems to invite guests to a Live Event as guest presenters.
Hi, I found this article about the setting up the (Guest) Presenters.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-live-events/plan-for-teams-live-events
We are working on setting up outside presenters as well.
Hi LinusCansby , yes they need to be guests but they also need to be a member of a Team in your tenant also? Simply inviting them doesn't do the trick.
DaithiG Yes, they need to be member of a Team to get the tenant switching if you are inviting them as guests. Just creating a guest account is not enough.
Hi LinusCansby , that's it. It just doesn't seem intuitive. It looks like you can just "invite the user" as a guest presenter but there's a few more steps that aren't well documented.
Tbh, it's one of the reasons we ended up using Zoom for webinars because it's more streamlined and doesn't require these steps.
