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Hi CatalinStaicuAlex ,

I think what you really need in this scenario is the paid for Teams and make use of a feature called Live events. That would make your life so much easier from a conference stand point where the participant could be anyone and you then have a select amount of presenters controlling the content.

For the free version, you are loosely right, although not sure about the 330 as that exceeds 300. That is another thing Live Events has a much higher participant limit.

The other thing is that really you do not want to be adding in Guest accounts for the sake of a conference really, so with the Link method you could do the Meet Now or Scheduled and provide that link. Which I think is what you were proposing to do. When setting up the meeting you can also go into privacy settings and allow only people in your Org to present, that might help with the presenter side of things.

I also found it a bit hit and miss when adding external, so the best outcome I got was when going into the Manage Org option you identified, adding in the Guest via email invite and providing they had gone through the Invite process I was then able to join successfully.

Also from a chat perspective, if the meeting is created outside of a Team, so via Meetings on the left Chat is available and after the meeting you would be able to go back to the chat via the Chat navigation element on the left.

If the meeting is created from within the Channel of a Team, then yes Chat is only available to those that are members of the Team.

I would say that the Outside of the Team method technically fits the bill better though, as this is a conference and not a Team of people working on something as such.

So to clarify, yes to the 300.

Yes to chat if outside of a Team and No, unless a Team Member if inside of a Team

I would also consider the paid for version of Teams as it has a feature that was made for this type of scenario, which I think we are really trying to imitate.

Thanks

Henry