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Show more than 4 people on Teams video
It would be really great if we could have this facility.
We run hearings and can't really do this succesfully when you can't see everyone.
Derek_Hart where are you doing hearings from? I'm interested because we are doing hearings in Texas and we can't use teams because the IT doesn't allow anyone outside the organization to participate. If you were able to convince your IT department to allow it, I would love to know how you did that. We're doing everything in Zoom. Sorry Zoom, not in love. It would be so much easier if we work with outside people also.
Hi,
As I am the Head of IT for my organisation I lead the decision about what tools are used to meet business requirements. Business requirements are paramount but IT should recommend the best tools to use to deliver those requirements so that the organisation can maintain a consistent IT strategic direction and tool-set.
We are one of the UK Health Care Regulators and used to do all in person Hearings from our central London Office. Since the pandemic we have done all virtual Hearings using Teams and numerous cases have been completed in that way. We are now restarting some physical Hearings where relevant parties agree (not sure on how that decision is made - it is a business decision not IT).
Our Microsoft Teams environment allows external people to use Teams so I guess that would be a simple setting change by IT in your environment.
You can use poor practice for anything and Zoom has received lots of poor press - but I suspect that is more about how it can be used badly. Zoom can be used securely and successfully.
However, I think Teams has a really good interface and links in really well with the rest of the Microsoft stack. The latest improvements (changing to 9 participants) and hand raising have improved it further, and future enhancements like showing more participants could make it great.
So we intend sticking with Teams. Good luck with your process.
KR
Derek
