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Teams Meeting vs. Live Event
Hi everyone We regularly host Live Events for our manager webinars and they work really well. However, the next one might require more than 9 presenters so I was thinking of moving it to a Teams mee...
Lisa Wright I would say it's unlikely to be a problem with quality. Regular Teams meetings are fine for up to 300 attendees, so you aren't going to be effected by any issues from the service. The network bandwidth used isn't really very different.
Things are different, for example you can't control who is one the screen like you can in a Live Event, and you'll have to ask your audience to stay muted.
BTW a tip I've used a few times is to get a cheap USB HDMI capture device, I then run a regular Teams meeting on one laptop with the sound and pictures being sent as if was plugged into a screen, but capture it on another PC that treats it as a webcam, then I can send that to the Live Event, allowing Teams to do the 3x3 video etc.
Lisa Wright a Teams Live Event can have up to 250 presenters, but only the last 10 to speak are displayed in the list - see footnote 2 at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-live-events/plan-for-teams-live-events#teams-live-events-and-skype-meeting-broadcast
- As an alternative, you could just run it as a Teams meeting, and assign the Presenter role only to those who need it (give all others the Attendee role).
That would prevent attendees from taking over the screenshare, muting the presenter, etc.