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Webinar med teams live: can I invite external presenters even if they do not have account?
Hi! Are organising my first webinar med microsoft teams. Come across couple of problems during preparation- hope you all can help me out! 1) can I invite external presenters (that do not have...
it is Teams Live Events I am testing. But understand that even though this is a more expensive service, I do not have the option to invite an external presenter there? So strange! Because this is what we wanted to do with the service- organising a set of webinars with various external experts...
Hi,
Sorry, external users can be presenters. This is new since a couple of weeks back. Just invite them to the meeting when you create it and select that they should be presenters.
Sorry, external users can be presenters. This is new since a couple of weeks back. Just invite them to the meeting when you create it and select that they should be presenters.
LinusCansby ah that´s great news!!! thanks for your answer
- I've not tested it but in the documentation is say this feature is coming soon:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoftteams/teams-live-events/plan-for-teams-live-events
But in the uservoice Microsoft says it is here now:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/36613579-guest-presenter-in-team-live-event-meetingthanks again! it still is confusing I think- they say ´The ability for Office 365 guests and federated users to be presenters and producers of a Teams live event is now live.´ - but what is a federated user? my external presenters do not have their own office 365 account...