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Webinar - adding an external presenter before the meeting
stinarap Have you had any luck resolving this problem yet? I am struggling with it as well. I can add external presenters to the Webinar, but they still come in as attendees. We have asked presenters to raise their hands as soon as the enter the Webinar, which kicks them to the top of the Attendee list and makes it easier to pick out and promote them manually, but that's still a step we don't really have time for at the beginning of the meeting, so it would be a lot better if the people we designate as presenters come in that way, regardless of whether they're external to our org or not.
squanjox Hello, when testing this out previously something was going on and the experience wasn't consistent. Now I just tried adding some externals (open federation also called 'external access') to the required presenters field. If doing nothing after that they are indeed being Attendees when they join. But if you edit the meeting options and use the presenters dropdown adding those external users in that field beforehand they are entering as Presenters.
- I have tried to edit the meeting options as you suggest, but when I set "Who can present" to "Specific People," all that shows up next to it is "To assign a role to a participant, invite them to the meeting individually." I cannot select the external presenter I have already invited. And when I set "Who can present" to "People in my organization and Guests" the invited external presenter still comes in as an Attendee. I'm stuck.
It's definitely buggy. I no longer can do it and have to wait until the actual meeting to start to change the permissions for the external presenters.
However I have raised a ticket to Microsoft Premier Support and this is their response:
"PG confirmed they will be rolling out this feature in lower ring first which means the fix will roll out for General Availability in 4-6 weeks, it is a Standard ETA. "
So hopefully we will see this improved in a month or two.
