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Reymond20
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Apr 23, 2020

MS Teams Video Calls Maximum limit

Dear Community, I was wondering why Microsoft limited only to four(4) people in a video conference, currently we've had a 15 people to join a townhall in our company but only four persons in a video ...
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LinusCansby
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Apr 23, 2020

Hi,

 

Currently you will only see four active speakers, that will be increased to nine soon (May). So if you are 15 people in the meeting the 4 (9 soon) latest active speakers will be shown with their video.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/view-all-participants-in-video-meeting/m-p/1232361/highlight/true#M47412

 

If you have a group chat you will only be able to start a video conference from that if you are 20 participants or less in that group chat.

 

If you schedule a meeting or invite to a meeting you can be 250 participants in that meeting.

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atemizel
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May 18, 2020

Hi Linus,

Actually my problem is the opposite :=). Now that they rolled out the 9 video support, Microsoft Surface Go is struggling with decoding and displaying all videos. This results in system being very sluggish and unresponsive. I was wondering if there is a way to limit the number of videos (i.e. 4 as before) that would appear simultaneously on the screen. 

LinusCansby 

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    LinusCansby
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    May 19, 2020

    atemizel No, I don't think you can change the UI to 2x2 but you could pin a video to only see that video, maybe not a solution. 

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      atemizel
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      May 20, 2020

      LinusCansby Thanks! 

      I'll try this, could be useful in some cases.

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