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Show more than 4 people on Teams video
Hi,
Looking back through previous forum posts, it looks like there have been plans to expand the max number of windows shown in calls from 2x2 to 3x3, so you would be able to see 9 people on video at a time rather than 4.
Has there been any progress on this? You're probably aware that a huge number of people are now working from home, so this would be a very useful feature to have at the moment!
Thanks
Mike
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How do you enable multiple view of people 3 or 4 currently what I'm gonna chat of three or four people it switches back-and-forth between each speaker it's not a split screen between all of us.
jvinciguerra2 Did anyone answer this? I have the same problem and can't find anywhere in settings to rectify it.
jvinciguerra2 Did you ever find out how to see 4 people at once on the web version? Like you I can only see who is talking each time, not the whole audience.
jvinciguerra2 I think showing up to 4 people is default if you are using the Desktop app (i.e. not the web interface). Otherwise I'm not sure as I've only ever had that multi-window mode, maybe one of the buttons along the bottom of the video window?
Mikehopkins18 Best thing to do is use the https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17010055-show-video-for-all-people-in-video-meeting#{toggle_previous_statuses} feature request - you can vote for it (I just did that!) and then check for updates
- Just voted, thanks SwAG_Ben
- Just did, hope it will be solved within hours now seeing the situation
- Or to use slack (supports up to 15 participants with video in a call)
Not sure if necessary bandwidht OR TRouter or TURN Server configuration is the reason why only 4 concurrent videos are supported.
For sure it's not a simple task...otherwise they would have solved it already right from the beginning 😉
Done ....
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
Derek_Hart , you could try zoom - which does show all video participants, while waiting on Teams.
- No further updates here except that’s it coming but no ETA
Adam
